1 00:00:17,717 --> 00:00:17,784 2 00:00:17,784 --> 00:00:18,451 >>> AUGUST 8th 2023 JOINT 3 00:00:18,451 --> 00:00:20,887 MEETING OF THE HUMAN SERVICES 4 00:00:20,887 --> 00:00:25,125 COMMITTEE AND THE SELECT 5 00:00:25,125 --> 00:00:26,226 COMMITTEE WILL COME TO ORDER. 6 00:00:26,226 --> 00:00:28,361 IT IS 5: 31 A.M. I AM LISA 7 00:00:28,361 --> 00:00:32,699 HERBOLD , CHAIR OF THE HUMAN 8 00:00:32,699 --> 00:00:37,804 SERVICES COMMITTEE. 9 00:00:37,804 --> 00:00:40,707 >> COUNCILMEMBER NELSON? 10 00:00:40,707 --> 00:00:45,412 >> 11 00:00:45,412 --> 00:00:47,514 >> PRESENT 12 00:00:47,514 --> 00:00:52,419 >> COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS? 13 00:00:52,419 --> 00:01:00,160 >> PRESENT. 14 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:04,764 >> AND COUNCILMEMBER JUAREZ IS 15 00:01:04,764 --> 00:01:05,298 ALSO EXCUSED. 16 00:01:05,298 --> 00:01:09,369 >> THANK YOU. ANYONE WANT TO 17 00:01:09,369 --> 00:01:11,004 RELAY THE ATTENDANCE FOR THE 18 00:01:11,004 --> 00:01:15,909 RECORD? THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO 19 00:01:15,909 --> 00:01:16,976 WE WILL HEAR A BRIEF 20 00:01:16,976 --> 00:01:17,610 INTRODUCTION TO COLLECTIVE 21 00:01:17,610 --> 00:01:20,313 BARGAINING WITH THE SEATTLE 22 00:01:20,313 --> 00:01:20,980 POLICE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION 23 00:01:20,980 --> 00:01:21,848 BY COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF. WE 24 00:01:21,848 --> 00:01:26,786 WILL PROCEED TO THE HEARING ON 25 00:01:26,786 --> 00:01:27,487 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH THE 26 00:01:27,487 --> 00:01:28,421 MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION, HEARING 27 00:01:28,421 --> 00:01:33,626 FIRST FROM THE ACCOUNTABILITY 28 00:01:33,626 --> 00:01:34,961 BODIES, AND WE WILL MOVE TO 29 00:01:34,961 --> 00:01:35,862 APPROVE THE AGENDA FOR OUR 30 00:01:35,862 --> 00:01:36,963 COMMITTEE MEETING. I WANT TO 31 00:01:36,963 --> 00:01:42,469 THANK COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR 32 00:01:42,469 --> 00:01:46,940 THEIR FORBEARANCE. I KNOW IT 33 00:01:46,940 --> 00:01:48,641 HAS BEEN A LONG DAY AND WE HAVE 34 00:01:48,641 --> 00:01:50,210 BEEN ASKING A LOT OF YOU, SO I 35 00:01:50,210 --> 00:01:51,044 APPRECIATE YOUR BEING HERE 36 00:01:51,044 --> 00:01:52,278 TODAY. IF THERE IS NO 37 00:01:52,278 --> 00:01:52,979 OBJECTION, TODAY'S AGENDA WILL 38 00:01:52,979 --> 00:01:53,680 BE ADOPTED. HEARING NO 39 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:54,614 OBJECTION, TODAY'S AGENDA IS 40 00:01:54,614 --> 00:01:55,515 ADOPTED. MAY THE CLERK PLEASE 41 00:01:55,515 --> 00:02:01,588 READ AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE. 42 00:02:01,588 --> 00:02:02,655 >> AGENDA ITEM NUMBER ONE, 43 00:02:02,655 --> 00:02:03,289 INTRODUCTION TO COLLECTIVE 44 00:02:03,289 --> 00:02:04,157 BARGAINING WITH THE SEATTLE 45 00:02:04,157 --> 00:02:04,858 POLICE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION, 46 00:02:04,858 --> 00:02:07,627 OR S PMA. 47 00:02:07,627 --> 00:02:08,995 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE ARE 48 00:02:08,995 --> 00:02:09,896 JOINED BY CENTRAL STAFF 49 00:02:09,896 --> 00:02:15,168 DIRECTOR ESTHER HANDY AND GREG 50 00:02:15,168 --> 00:02:17,971 DAWES IS ALSO HERE FOR THE 51 00:02:17,971 --> 00:02:23,610 INTRODUCTION TO THE COLLECTIVE 52 00:02:23,610 --> 00:02:26,212 BARGAINING PROCESS. 53 00:02:26,212 --> 00:02:27,347 SPECIFICALLY IN THIS CASE FOR 54 00:02:27,347 --> 00:02:28,181 US TODAY, THE COLLECTIVE 55 00:02:28,181 --> 00:02:28,882 BARGAINING PROCESS WITH THE 56 00:02:28,882 --> 00:02:29,616 SEATTLE POLICE MANAGEMENT 57 00:02:29,616 --> 00:02:30,183 ASSOCIATION. THANK YOU. 58 00:02:30,183 --> 00:02:40,727 >> THANK YOU, CHAIR HER BOLD. 59 00:02:40,860 --> 00:02:42,162 AS I PULL UP MY PRESENTATION, I 60 00:02:42,162 --> 00:02:46,866 AM ESTHER HANDY, DIRECTOR OF 61 00:02:46,866 --> 00:02:47,734 COUNCIL CENTRAL STAFF, AS YOU 62 00:02:47,734 --> 00:02:50,870 MENTIONED, HERE TO PROVIDE A 63 00:02:50,870 --> 00:02:51,905 BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CITY LABOR 64 00:02:51,905 --> 00:02:54,374 NEGOTIATION PROCESSES TO SET 65 00:02:54,374 --> 00:02:55,475 SOME CONTEXT FOR THE PUBLIC 66 00:02:55,475 --> 00:02:56,576 HEARING. I AM JOINED BY HER 67 00:02:56,576 --> 00:03:01,514 SUPERVISING ANALYST GREG DOSS, 68 00:03:01,514 --> 00:03:03,016 WHO WILL BE HERE TO ANSWER 69 00:03:03,016 --> 00:03:03,683 QUESTIONS. THE SEATTLE POLICE 70 00:03:03,683 --> 00:03:04,551 MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION IS THE 71 00:03:04,551 --> 00:03:07,287 SMALLER OF TWO UNIONS THAT 72 00:03:07,287 --> 00:03:09,522 REPRESENT CITY OF SEATTLE 73 00:03:09,522 --> 00:03:11,958 POLICE OFFICERS. THE SEATTLE 74 00:03:11,958 --> 00:03:13,026 POLICE OFFICERS KILLED, 75 00:03:13,026 --> 00:03:17,964 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS SPOG, 76 00:03:17,964 --> 00:03:22,101 REPRESENTS MOST OFFICERS. 77 00:03:22,101 --> 00:03:28,041 TONIGHT, THE GOAL IS TO 78 00:03:28,041 --> 00:03:28,975 EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF 79 00:03:28,975 --> 00:03:29,576 THE POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY 80 00:03:29,576 --> 00:03:30,677 SYSTEM BEFORE THE CITY AND 81 00:03:30,677 --> 00:03:31,177 UNION BEGIN CONTRACT 82 00:03:31,177 --> 00:03:36,849 NEGOTIATIONS. THE CURRENT S 83 00:03:36,849 --> 00:03:37,951 PMA CONTRACT RUNS FROM JANUARY 84 00:03:37,951 --> 00:03:39,085 1st, 2020 THROUGH THE END OF 85 00:03:39,085 --> 00:03:42,288 THIS YEAR, DECEMBER 31st, 2023. 86 00:03:42,288 --> 00:03:43,122 THERE ARE TWO TIMING 87 00:03:43,122 --> 00:03:43,990 CONSIDERATIONS THAT AFFECT WHEN 88 00:03:43,990 --> 00:03:46,526 FORMAL NEGOTIATIONS CAN BEGIN. 89 00:03:46,526 --> 00:03:47,060 FIRST ACKNOWLEDGING THE 90 00:03:47,060 --> 00:03:48,228 EXPIRING CONTRACT ON MAY 19th 91 00:03:48,228 --> 00:03:55,668 OF THIS YEAR, THE LABOR 92 00:03:55,668 --> 00:03:56,436 RELATIONS POLICY COMMITTEE WAS 93 00:03:56,436 --> 00:03:57,403 PROVIDED A FORMAL 180 DAY 94 00:03:57,403 --> 00:04:03,476 NOTICE OF THE CITY'S INTENT TO 95 00:04:03,476 --> 00:04:04,177 BEGIN BARGAINING WITH SPMA, 96 00:04:04,177 --> 00:04:05,011 WHICH PROMPTED THIS PUBLIC 97 00:04:05,011 --> 00:04:09,882 HEARING. THE CITY AND SPMA CAN 98 00:04:09,882 --> 00:04:10,717 BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS NO SOONER 99 00:04:10,717 --> 00:04:11,851 THAN 90 DAYS FROM TONIGHT'S 100 00:04:11,851 --> 00:04:12,719 PUBLIC HEARING, WHICH IS 101 00:04:12,719 --> 00:04:18,758 NOVEMBER 7th, 2023. THIS IS 102 00:04:18,758 --> 00:04:19,926 THE FIRST STEP IN THE LABOR 103 00:04:19,926 --> 00:04:20,793 NEGOTIATION PROCESS, WHICH I 104 00:04:20,793 --> 00:04:22,161 WILL WALK THROUGH, AND I WANT 105 00:04:22,161 --> 00:04:23,062 TO THANK JESSE FRANCE FOR 106 00:04:23,062 --> 00:04:24,097 HELPING US TO CREATE THIS 107 00:04:24,097 --> 00:04:27,200 GRAPHIC TO HELP EXPLAIN IT. I 108 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,334 WANT TO TRY TO ADVANCE MY 109 00:04:28,334 --> 00:04:37,010 SLIDES. THERE WE GO. SO 110 00:04:37,010 --> 00:04:37,677 WASHINGTON STATE LAW 111 00:04:37,677 --> 00:04:38,911 ESTABLISHES THE RIGHT OF 112 00:04:38,911 --> 00:04:39,445 EMPLOYEES TO JOIN LABOR 113 00:04:39,445 --> 00:04:43,449 ORGANIZATIONS AND BE 114 00:04:43,449 --> 00:04:44,150 REPRESENTED IN MATTERS 115 00:04:44,150 --> 00:04:44,784 CONCERNING PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT. 116 00:04:44,784 --> 00:04:45,885 THE LAW REQUIRES THAT THE CITY 117 00:04:45,885 --> 00:04:51,591 AND UNIONS NEGOTIATE IN GOOD 118 00:04:51,591 --> 00:04:53,226 FAITH ON ALL MANDATORY SUBJECT 119 00:04:53,226 --> 00:04:54,027 OF BARGAINING. THAT IS 120 00:04:54,027 --> 00:04:59,132 GENERALLY WAGES, HOURS AND 121 00:04:59,132 --> 00:05:00,033 WORKING CONDITIONS, AND FOR 122 00:05:00,033 --> 00:05:00,733 POLICE UNIONS THOSE 123 00:05:00,733 --> 00:05:01,434 NEGOTIATIONS WILL ALSO INCLUDE 124 00:05:01,434 --> 00:05:02,068 POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY. THIS 125 00:05:02,068 --> 00:05:07,507 PROCESS KICKS OFF WITH A JOINT 126 00:05:07,507 --> 00:05:08,541 PUBLIC HEARING THIS EVENING. 127 00:05:08,541 --> 00:05:09,842 THE INPUT WILL BE TAKEN TO THE 128 00:05:09,842 --> 00:05:10,443 LABOR RELATIONS POLICY 129 00:05:10,443 --> 00:05:11,678 COMMITTEE WHOSE JOB IT IS TO 130 00:05:11,678 --> 00:05:12,378 ESTABLISH BARGAINING PARAMETERS 131 00:05:12,378 --> 00:05:13,713 FOR THE LABOR RELATIONS 132 00:05:13,713 --> 00:05:14,547 NEGOTIATING TEAM. THE LABOR 133 00:05:14,547 --> 00:05:15,381 RELATIONS POLICY COMMITTEE 134 00:05:15,381 --> 00:05:21,421 INCLUDES THESE MEMBERS . FROM 135 00:05:21,421 --> 00:05:22,322 SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL, DEBORA 136 00:05:22,322 --> 00:05:30,096 JUAREZ, COUNCILMEMBERS HER 137 00:05:30,096 --> 00:05:36,135 BOLD, CHAIR MOSQUEDA , AND 138 00:05:36,135 --> 00:05:37,503 PEDERSEN AS WELL AS THE 139 00:05:37,503 --> 00:05:38,738 GENERAL COUNCIL TO THE MAYOR 140 00:05:38,738 --> 00:05:42,675 AND THE POLICY DIRECTOR TO THE 141 00:05:42,675 --> 00:05:43,543 MAYOR. THIS COMMITTEE MEETS 142 00:05:43,543 --> 00:05:49,148 REGULARLY TO DISCUSS BARGAINING 143 00:05:49,148 --> 00:05:50,149 STRATEGY FOR CITY UNIONS AND 144 00:05:50,149 --> 00:05:55,588 ARE THEREFORE EXCLUDED FROM 145 00:05:55,588 --> 00:05:56,856 TYPICAL REQUIREMENTS FROM THE 146 00:05:56,856 --> 00:05:57,824 OPEN PUBLIC MEETING ACT. THEY 147 00:05:57,824 --> 00:05:58,858 SET THE PARAMETERS THAT THE 148 00:05:58,858 --> 00:05:59,726 CITY NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE USES 149 00:05:59,726 --> 00:06:00,693 TO DEVELOP A TENTATIVE 150 00:06:00,693 --> 00:06:04,897 AGREEMENT OR ESSENTIALLY A 151 00:06:04,897 --> 00:06:07,367 PROPOSED CONTRACT WITH SPMA. 152 00:06:07,367 --> 00:06:14,340 THAT COULD BE FOR ONE YEAR OR 153 00:06:14,340 --> 00:06:15,608 FOUR OR FIVE YEARS. ONCE AN 154 00:06:15,608 --> 00:06:16,375 AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED 155 00:06:16,375 --> 00:06:17,477 MANAGEMENT MUST RATIFY THE 156 00:06:17,477 --> 00:06:18,311 AGREEMENT. THE CITY THEN 157 00:06:18,311 --> 00:06:24,250 RATIFIES IT THROUGH A MOMENT 158 00:06:24,250 --> 00:06:28,287 MAJORITY VOTE OF THE COUNCIL 159 00:06:28,287 --> 00:06:29,655 IN OPEN SESSION. THAT IS A 160 00:06:29,655 --> 00:06:30,623 QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS. 161 00:06:30,623 --> 00:06:31,858 GREG AND I ARE AVAILABLE TO 162 00:06:31,858 --> 00:06:32,592 ANSWER QUESTIONS BEFORE TAKING 163 00:06:32,592 --> 00:06:33,526 COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC. 164 00:06:33,526 --> 00:06:35,394 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, DIRECTOR 165 00:06:35,394 --> 00:06:36,462 HANDY. GREG, DO YOU HAVE 166 00:06:36,462 --> 00:06:41,868 ANYTHING TO ADD? 167 00:06:41,868 --> 00:06:44,337 >> NOPE, I JUST AM HERE TO 168 00:06:44,337 --> 00:06:45,304 ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT 169 00:06:45,304 --> 00:06:46,305 HAVE ON SPMA SPECIFICALLY OR 170 00:06:46,305 --> 00:06:47,774 THE LAST CONTRACT. THANKS. 171 00:06:47,774 --> 00:06:49,175 >> I AM JUST SEEING IF THERE 172 00:06:49,175 --> 00:06:49,742 ARE QUESTIONS FROM 173 00:06:49,742 --> 00:06:55,248 COUNCILMEMBERS. LOOKING FOR 174 00:06:55,248 --> 00:06:57,416 RAISED HANDS AND REAL HANDS. 175 00:06:57,416 --> 00:06:58,618 NOT SEEING ANY. JUST BEFORE WE 176 00:06:58,618 --> 00:06:59,952 MOVE ON, I DO WANT TO, AGAIN, 177 00:06:59,952 --> 00:07:03,089 UNDERSCORE THE PURPOSE OF THE 178 00:07:03,089 --> 00:07:04,023 HEARING, WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED 179 00:07:04,023 --> 00:07:10,563 BY MUNICIPAL CODE UNDER THE 180 00:07:10,563 --> 00:07:12,432 LEADERSHIP OF PREVIOUS 181 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:13,099 COUNCILMEMBERS BECAUSE OF 182 00:07:13,099 --> 00:07:19,405 CONCERN THAT THE PROCESS, ONCE 183 00:07:19,405 --> 00:07:24,510 IT BEGAN, WAS A CLOSE PROCESS. 184 00:07:24,510 --> 00:07:30,817 THE COUNCIL WANTED TO MAKE SURE 185 00:07:30,817 --> 00:07:32,618 THAT THERE WAS THE ABILITY OF 186 00:07:32,618 --> 00:07:35,521 THE PUBLIC AS WELL AS POLICE 187 00:07:35,521 --> 00:07:36,556 STAKEHOLDERS TO GIVE INPUT TO 188 00:07:36,556 --> 00:07:38,124 THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS BEFORE 189 00:07:38,124 --> 00:07:42,094 IT BEGAN. THAT IS WHY THE 190 00:07:42,094 --> 00:07:44,931 PROCESS IS IMPORTANT. WE HAD A 191 00:07:44,931 --> 00:07:50,736 LOT OF GOOD OUTCOMES WITH THE 192 00:07:50,736 --> 00:07:53,940 LAST SPMA CONTRACT NEGOTIATION, 193 00:07:53,940 --> 00:08:00,713 AND A NUMBER OF THE -- THAT 194 00:08:00,713 --> 00:08:01,747 WERE REFLECTED IN THAT CONTRACT 195 00:08:01,747 --> 00:08:02,682 WERE REFORMS THAT WERE 196 00:08:02,682 --> 00:08:07,520 IDENTIFIED BY THE PUBLIC AND BY 197 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:08,287 OUR POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY 198 00:08:08,287 --> 00:08:09,455 PARTNERS, THE CPC, THE OPA AND 199 00:08:09,455 --> 00:08:13,226 THE OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR 200 00:08:13,226 --> 00:08:14,193 GENERAL IN ADVANCE OF THE 201 00:08:14,193 --> 00:08:15,828 NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE SPMA 202 00:08:15,828 --> 00:08:21,801 CONTRACT LAST TIME AROUND. SO 203 00:08:21,801 --> 00:08:23,102 WITH THAT IF THERE ARE NO 204 00:08:23,102 --> 00:08:26,172 ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, WE WILL 205 00:08:26,172 --> 00:08:27,240 PROCEED TO THE PUBLIC HEARING. 206 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:31,811 I BELIEVE WE ARE GOING TO BE 207 00:08:31,811 --> 00:08:32,612 HEARING FIRST FROM OUR 208 00:08:32,612 --> 00:08:33,279 ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNERS, IS 209 00:08:33,279 --> 00:08:34,447 THAT CORRECT, MR. CLERK? 210 00:08:34,447 --> 00:08:38,751 >> THAT IS CORRECT, YES. 211 00:08:38,751 --> 00:08:40,119 >> CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE READ 212 00:08:40,119 --> 00:08:40,887 THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM? 213 00:08:40,887 --> 00:08:45,524 >> AGENDA ITEM D, AGENDA ITEM 214 00:08:45,524 --> 00:08:48,261 ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH 215 00:08:48,261 --> 00:08:49,896 THE SEATTLE POLICE MANAGEMENT 216 00:08:49,896 --> 00:08:50,263 ASSOCIATION. 217 00:08:50,263 --> 00:08:54,066 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. AS 218 00:08:54,066 --> 00:08:55,234 PRESIDING OFFICER I AM OPENING 219 00:08:55,234 --> 00:08:56,102 UP THE HEARING ON COLLECTIVE 220 00:08:56,102 --> 00:09:05,478 BARGAINING WITH THE SEATTLE 221 00:09:05,478 --> 00:09:06,178 POLICE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION. 222 00:09:06,178 --> 00:09:07,280 FOLKS ARE PROBABLY AWARE THAT 223 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:08,681 THIS HEARING OPENED UP A 3: 30 224 00:09:08,681 --> 00:09:15,454 P.M. AND IN PERSON 225 00:09:15,454 --> 00:09:16,289 REGISTRATION BEGAN AT 5:00. 226 00:09:16,289 --> 00:09:17,623 AGAIN, MR. CLERK, MY NOTES SAY 227 00:09:17,623 --> 00:09:18,991 I WILL CALL PEOPLE IN THE ORDER 228 00:09:18,991 --> 00:09:20,092 OF REGISTRATION, BUT I BELIEVE 229 00:09:20,092 --> 00:09:21,761 THAT IS NOT THE CASE. WE ARE 230 00:09:21,761 --> 00:09:23,095 GOING TO BE HEARING FIRST FROM 231 00:09:23,095 --> 00:09:25,298 OUR ACCOUNT ABILITY PARTNERS? 232 00:09:25,298 --> 00:09:25,798 >> YES. 233 00:09:25,798 --> 00:09:35,207 >> OKAY. SO THAT IS NOT IN 234 00:09:35,207 --> 00:09:36,642 ORDER OF REGISTRATION. SO AM I 235 00:09:36,642 --> 00:09:42,381 ASKING FOLKS TO THE TABLE, MR. 236 00:09:42,381 --> 00:09:43,282 CLERK? 237 00:09:43,282 --> 00:09:44,650 >> GIVEN THAT THAT IS NOT 238 00:09:44,650 --> 00:09:48,754 FILMED, YOU COULD ASK -- 239 00:09:48,754 --> 00:09:49,589 >> OKAY. WHAT OUR 240 00:09:49,589 --> 00:09:50,423 ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNERS LIKE TO 241 00:09:50,423 --> 00:09:52,291 COME TO THE TABLE AND GIVE YOUR 242 00:09:52,291 --> 00:09:58,064 COMMENTS THERE? IS THAT OKAY? 243 00:09:58,064 --> 00:10:06,372 THANK YOU. 244 00:10:06,372 --> 00:10:08,407 >> IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT ME TO 245 00:10:08,407 --> 00:10:12,378 DO? I DON'T -- I DIDN'T HAVE 246 00:10:12,378 --> 00:10:18,384 DIRECTION IF I AM SUPPOSED TO 247 00:10:18,384 --> 00:10:24,991 DO THAT. 248 00:10:24,991 --> 00:10:26,659 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE ARE 249 00:10:26,659 --> 00:10:31,464 BEGINNING WITH OUR THREE 250 00:10:31,464 --> 00:10:32,198 ACCOUNTABILITY BODIES. THE 251 00:10:32,198 --> 00:10:32,832 COMMUNITY POLICE COMMISSION, 252 00:10:32,832 --> 00:10:33,699 THE OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR 253 00:10:33,699 --> 00:10:34,667 GENERAL AND THE OFFICE OF 254 00:10:34,667 --> 00:10:35,534 POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY. YOU WILL 255 00:10:35,534 --> 00:10:41,207 EACH HAVE FIVE MINUTES TO 256 00:10:41,207 --> 00:10:42,775 SPEAK, AND I WILL ALLOW YOU TO 257 00:10:42,775 --> 00:10:48,381 GO IN ORDER. WE ARE INTENDING 258 00:10:48,381 --> 00:10:49,415 TO HEAR FIRST FROM THE 259 00:10:49,415 --> 00:10:50,149 COMMUNITY POLICE COMMISSIONER, 260 00:10:50,149 --> 00:10:52,018 SO WE WILL START WITH THAT. 261 00:10:52,018 --> 00:10:53,019 THAT WOULD BE GREAT. REVEREND 262 00:10:53,019 --> 00:10:53,285 HUNTER? 263 00:10:53,285 --> 00:10:54,754 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. GOOD 264 00:10:54,754 --> 00:10:58,624 EVENING. I AM DR. PATRICIA L 265 00:10:58,624 --> 00:10:59,992 HUNTER, ONE OF THE CO-CHAIRS OF 266 00:10:59,992 --> 00:11:02,428 THE SEATTLE POLICE COMMISSION. 267 00:11:02,428 --> 00:11:07,400 MY CO-CHAIRS ARE REVEREND 268 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,803 WALDEN AND JOE MARGOLIN. 269 00:11:10,803 --> 00:11:16,876 COUNCIL WAS PRESENTED THE 270 00:11:16,876 --> 00:11:17,510 UPCOMING SPMA NEGOTIATION AND 271 00:11:17,510 --> 00:11:19,111 TODAY WE ARE HERE TO DO THE 272 00:11:19,111 --> 00:11:20,913 SAME. CBC REMAINS COMMITTED TO 273 00:11:20,913 --> 00:11:22,815 GOALS OF ACCOUNTABILITY AS 274 00:11:22,815 --> 00:11:23,816 OUTLINED IN THE POLICE 275 00:11:23,816 --> 00:11:29,922 ACCOUNTABILITY ORDINANCE AND 276 00:11:29,922 --> 00:11:30,756 WE BELIEVE THAT COMMUNITY 277 00:11:30,756 --> 00:11:31,424 CONCERNS ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY 278 00:11:31,424 --> 00:11:32,558 SHOULD BE ROBUSTLY PRESENTED AS 279 00:11:32,558 --> 00:11:33,459 PART OF THE BARGAINING PROCESS. 280 00:11:33,459 --> 00:11:37,396 THE COMMISSION IS PLEASED TO 281 00:11:37,396 --> 00:11:38,764 NOTE THAT IT APPEARS THAT MANY 282 00:11:38,764 --> 00:11:39,331 OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS 283 00:11:39,331 --> 00:11:40,132 SUGGESTED TO COUNCIL THREE 284 00:11:40,132 --> 00:11:41,734 YEARS AGO HAVE IN FACT BEEN 285 00:11:41,734 --> 00:11:46,906 IMPLEMENTED IN THE CURRENT SPMA 286 00:11:46,906 --> 00:11:47,640 CONTRACT, INCLUDING USING A 287 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:48,274 PREPONDERANT STANDARD FOR 288 00:11:48,274 --> 00:11:50,242 ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT , 289 00:11:50,242 --> 00:11:54,747 ACCEPTING DISHONESTY AND 290 00:11:54,747 --> 00:11:55,414 REQUIREMENTS FOR MATERIAL 291 00:11:55,414 --> 00:11:55,881 INFORMATION DURING 292 00:11:55,881 --> 00:12:00,553 INVESTIGATIONS AND REFORMING 293 00:12:00,553 --> 00:12:01,654 THE 180 DAY TIMELINE FOR OPA 294 00:12:01,654 --> 00:12:02,321 INVESTIGATIONS AND ESTABLISHING 295 00:12:02,321 --> 00:12:04,523 FIRM TIMELINES FOR EACH STEP OF 296 00:12:04,523 --> 00:12:11,130 THE DISCIPLINARY PROCESS, 297 00:12:11,130 --> 00:12:12,364 INCLUDING APPEALS TO REDUCE THE 298 00:12:12,364 --> 00:12:13,699 LENGTH OF TIME FOR CASES TO BE 299 00:12:13,699 --> 00:12:16,335 RESOLVED, AND THREE, REFORMING 300 00:12:16,335 --> 00:12:17,203 CERTAIN FEATURES OF THE 301 00:12:17,203 --> 00:12:17,903 DISCIPLINARY PROCESS THAT 302 00:12:17,903 --> 00:12:23,309 AFFECT PUBLIC CONFIDENCE. AS WE 303 00:12:23,309 --> 00:12:24,410 NOTED IN OUR PRESENTATION IN 304 00:12:24,410 --> 00:12:25,344 2019, THE ORDINANCE HAS NOT 305 00:12:25,344 --> 00:12:26,145 BEEN FULLY IMPLEMENTED, WHICH 306 00:12:26,145 --> 00:12:27,113 CONTINUES TO CAUSE FRICTION 307 00:12:27,113 --> 00:12:30,783 BETWEEN POLICE CONTRACT TERMS 308 00:12:30,783 --> 00:12:33,052 AND THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS 309 00:12:33,052 --> 00:12:42,294 AROUND THE CONSENT DECREE. 310 00:12:42,294 --> 00:12:43,629 THERE ARE STILL GAPS THAT NEED 311 00:12:43,629 --> 00:12:44,830 TO BE ADDRESSED IN THE UPCOMING 312 00:12:44,830 --> 00:12:46,632 ROUNDS OF NEGOTIATIONS, AND WE 313 00:12:46,632 --> 00:12:47,500 BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE THREE 314 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:49,268 AREAS THAT THE COUNCIL AND SPMA 315 00:12:49,268 --> 00:12:52,872 SHOULD STILL FOCUS ON FOR THE 316 00:12:52,872 --> 00:12:53,739 NEW ROUND OF CONTRACT 317 00:12:53,739 --> 00:12:59,845 NEGOTIATIONS. THE OFFICE -- 318 00:12:59,845 --> 00:13:00,779 NUMBER ONE, THE OPPOSITE POLICE 319 00:13:00,779 --> 00:13:01,647 ACCOUNTABILITY HAS AN IMPORTANT 320 00:13:01,647 --> 00:13:02,782 ROLE IN THE ACCOUNTABILITY AND 321 00:13:02,782 --> 00:13:05,951 OVERSIGHT SYSTEM THAT IS 322 00:13:05,951 --> 00:13:06,819 WELL-ADDRESSED, HOWEVER THE CPC 323 00:13:06,819 --> 00:13:07,686 STILL PROPOSES THAT UNION 324 00:13:07,686 --> 00:13:09,655 APPROVAL OF EXTENSIONS OF THE 325 00:13:09,655 --> 00:13:12,625 180 DAY TIMELINE SHOULD NOT BE 326 00:13:12,625 --> 00:13:13,459 REQUIRED WHEN OPA IS NOT 327 00:13:13,459 --> 00:13:19,031 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DELAY. 328 00:13:19,031 --> 00:13:20,132 NUMBER TWO, THE CPC ALSO 329 00:13:20,132 --> 00:13:21,200 PROPOSES THAT THE STATUTE OF 330 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,003 LIMITATION SHOULD NOT APPLY FOR 331 00:13:24,003 --> 00:13:28,674 SERIOUS EXCESSIVE FORCE, FOR 332 00:13:28,674 --> 00:13:29,308 EXAMPLE, WITH DISHONESTY, 333 00:13:29,308 --> 00:13:35,281 COMMERCIAL CONTACT OR THAT ALL 334 00:13:35,281 --> 00:13:36,215 PERSONNEL FILE SHOULD BE 335 00:13:36,215 --> 00:13:39,785 PROPOSED FOR AT LEAST SIX YEARS 336 00:13:39,785 --> 00:13:41,120 AFTER THE OFFICER IS NO LONGER 337 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:48,427 EMPLOYED BY THE CITY. NUMBER 338 00:13:48,427 --> 00:13:51,297 THREE, CPC PROPOSES REFORMS TO 339 00:13:51,297 --> 00:13:51,997 SECONDARY EMPLOYMENT AND 340 00:13:51,997 --> 00:13:52,831 PRACTICE BY WHICH POLICE 341 00:13:52,831 --> 00:13:54,934 AGENCIES PERMIT OFFICERS TO 342 00:13:54,934 --> 00:13:56,068 WORK FOR OTHER EMPLOYERS WHEN 343 00:13:56,068 --> 00:13:59,672 OFF DUTY WHILE STILL WEARING 344 00:13:59,672 --> 00:14:03,075 SPD UNIFORMS, CARRYING WEAPONS 345 00:14:03,075 --> 00:14:04,343 AND MAINTAINING THE POWER AND 346 00:14:04,343 --> 00:14:06,879 AUTHORITY OF ON-DUTY OFFICERS. 347 00:14:06,879 --> 00:14:08,480 THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ISSUED AN 348 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:12,184 EXECUTIVE ORDER DIRECTING A 349 00:14:12,184 --> 00:14:12,818 COORDINATED INTERDEPARTMENTAL 350 00:14:12,818 --> 00:14:17,022 EFFORT TO REQUIRE SPD TO 351 00:14:17,022 --> 00:14:17,723 PROVIDE GREATER OVERSIGHT 352 00:14:17,723 --> 00:14:18,757 THROUGH REGULATIONS AND 353 00:14:18,757 --> 00:14:20,259 MANAGEMENT OF ALL SECONDARY 354 00:14:20,259 --> 00:14:24,396 EMPLOYMENT FOR SPD OFFICERS. 355 00:14:24,396 --> 00:14:25,397 THE CPC HAS ADDITIONAL 356 00:14:25,397 --> 00:14:26,999 RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE 357 00:14:26,999 --> 00:14:31,403 OUTLINED IN OUR FORTHCOMING 358 00:14:31,403 --> 00:14:32,037 LETTER INCLUDING SUGGESTIONS 359 00:14:32,037 --> 00:14:38,244 THAT WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE 360 00:14:38,244 --> 00:14:40,713 LAST CONTRACT. IT IS OUR 361 00:14:40,713 --> 00:14:41,814 SINCERE HOPE THAT IN THE NEXT 362 00:14:41,814 --> 00:14:42,748 ROUND OF CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS 363 00:14:42,748 --> 00:14:43,682 THAT RECOMMENDATIONS BY ALL 364 00:14:43,682 --> 00:14:44,350 ACCOUNT ABILITY PARTNERS WILL 365 00:14:44,350 --> 00:14:47,620 BE IMPLANTED TO ENSURE THAT SPD 366 00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:48,587 IS GUIDED BY CONSTITUTIONAL 367 00:14:48,587 --> 00:14:49,455 POLICING AS INTENDED BY THE 368 00:14:49,455 --> 00:14:54,627 CITY ACCOUNTABILITY ORDINANCE. 369 00:14:54,627 --> 00:14:55,427 FINALLY, THE COMMUNITY POLICE 370 00:14:55,427 --> 00:14:56,328 COMMISSION IS CONCERNED WITH 371 00:14:56,328 --> 00:14:57,263 THE BIASED CULTURE THAT IS 372 00:14:57,263 --> 00:14:58,664 PREVALENT WITHIN THE SEATTLE 373 00:14:58,664 --> 00:14:59,331 POLICE DEPARTMENT. WE BELIEVE 374 00:14:59,331 --> 00:15:00,366 THAT IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY 375 00:15:00,366 --> 00:15:01,700 OF THE POLICE CHIEF AND 376 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:03,736 MANAGEMENT TO ENSURE THAT SPD 377 00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:10,109 IS A BIAS-FREE EMPLOYER. WE 378 00:15:10,109 --> 00:15:16,048 WERE RECENTLY MADE AWARE OF THE 379 00:15:16,048 --> 00:15:20,753 VIDEO AND IN THE PRECINCT HUNG 380 00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:30,863 A TRUMPET PRESENT BANNER. IT 381 00:15:30,863 --> 00:15:31,830 IS INCUMBENT UPON MANAGEMENT, 382 00:15:31,830 --> 00:15:36,001 TENANTS AND CAPTAINS TO 383 00:15:36,001 --> 00:15:36,936 PROHIBIT REPROBATE BEHAVIOR AND 384 00:15:36,936 --> 00:15:42,441 NOT NEGOTIATED AWAY FROM THIS 385 00:15:42,441 --> 00:15:52,985 CONTRACT. IT IS OUR HOPE THAT 386 00:15:53,419 --> 00:15:54,586 THOSE WHO ALLOW THESE ACTS TO 387 00:15:54,586 --> 00:15:55,754 GO UNPUNISHED WILL BE HELD 388 00:15:55,754 --> 00:15:56,288 ACCOUNTABLE. THANK YOU. 389 00:15:56,288 --> 00:15:58,724 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, DR. 390 00:15:58,724 --> 00:15:59,992 HUNTER. I BELIEVE NEXT WE HAVE 391 00:15:59,992 --> 00:16:00,926 THE OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR 392 00:16:00,926 --> 00:16:01,760 GENERAL, REPRESENTED BY DEPUTY 393 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:02,227 DIRECTOR SMITH. 394 00:16:02,227 --> 00:16:07,800 >> YES, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I AM 395 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:08,667 BETSY SCOTT, DEPUTY INSPECTOR 396 00:16:08,667 --> 00:16:09,668 GENERAL FOR PUBLIC SAFETY FROM 397 00:16:09,668 --> 00:16:10,803 THE OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR 398 00:16:10,803 --> 00:16:12,338 GENERAL FOR PUBLIC SAFETY. WE 399 00:16:12,338 --> 00:16:13,072 APPRECIATE BEING INCLUDED IN 400 00:16:13,072 --> 00:16:21,647 THIS HEARING THIS EVENING. IN 401 00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:22,381 ADVANCED BARGAINING, OIG 402 00:16:22,381 --> 00:16:23,382 GENERATED A MEMORANDUM TO THE 403 00:16:23,382 --> 00:16:24,049 SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL 404 00:16:24,049 --> 00:16:24,583 IDENTIFYING POTENTIALLY 405 00:16:24,583 --> 00:16:27,319 PROBLEMATIC PROVISIONS IN THE 406 00:16:27,319 --> 00:16:27,953 AGREEMENT THAT UNPACKED 407 00:16:27,953 --> 00:16:28,754 ACCOUNTABILITY. THAT MEMO WAS 408 00:16:28,754 --> 00:16:29,688 INTENDED TO HIGHLIGHT AREAS OF 409 00:16:29,688 --> 00:16:34,727 FOCUS FOR THE CITY IN TERMS OF 410 00:16:34,727 --> 00:16:35,394 BARGAINING EFFORTS TO 411 00:16:35,394 --> 00:16:36,028 STRENGTHEN AND ACTUALIZE 412 00:16:36,028 --> 00:16:40,866 ACCOUNTABILITY REFORMS ENACTED 413 00:16:40,866 --> 00:16:42,101 BY THE SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL IN 414 00:16:42,101 --> 00:16:43,168 2017. PRIMARY AREAS OF CONCERN 415 00:16:43,168 --> 00:16:44,136 AT THE TIME INCLUDED ENSURING 416 00:16:44,136 --> 00:16:44,803 MEASURES THAT PROVIDE 417 00:16:44,803 --> 00:16:45,537 TRANSPARENCY , ENHANCED 418 00:16:45,537 --> 00:16:49,808 COMMUNITY TRUST AND SOLIDIFIED 419 00:16:49,808 --> 00:16:50,576 AUTHORITY AND SUSTAINABILITY 420 00:16:50,576 --> 00:16:51,276 FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY 421 00:16:51,276 --> 00:16:55,214 ENTITIES. SPECIFICALLY SUBPOENA 422 00:16:55,214 --> 00:16:56,315 POWER, QUANTUM OF PROOF ON 423 00:16:56,315 --> 00:16:58,283 APPEAL, THE 180 DAY TIMELINE, 424 00:16:58,283 --> 00:17:04,423 ARBITRATION REFORM AND 425 00:17:04,423 --> 00:17:05,290 AUTHORITY IN CRIMINAL CASES 426 00:17:05,290 --> 00:17:06,191 WERE IDENTIFIED AS PRIMARY 427 00:17:06,191 --> 00:17:08,327 AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT. 428 00:17:08,327 --> 00:17:08,861 ADDITIONALLY, INCREASED 429 00:17:08,861 --> 00:17:09,728 TRANSPARENCY IN THE BARGAINING 430 00:17:09,728 --> 00:17:11,029 PROCESS WAS ALSO CALLED OUT FOR 431 00:17:11,029 --> 00:17:16,335 REFORM. SINCE THAT TIME, THE 432 00:17:16,335 --> 00:17:17,169 CURRENT CBA WAS NEGOTIATED, 433 00:17:17,169 --> 00:17:17,836 RESULTING IN SUBSTANTIAL 434 00:17:17,836 --> 00:17:20,839 STRIDES THAT ADDRESSED SPECIFIC 435 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:22,040 CONCERNS RAISED BY OIG AND 436 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:22,508 OTHER STAKEHOLDERS. 437 00:17:22,508 --> 00:17:26,245 IMPROVEMENTS IN GAINS THAT 438 00:17:26,245 --> 00:17:27,012 DIRECTLY BENEFIT ACCOUNTABILITY 439 00:17:27,012 --> 00:17:31,283 EFFORTS IN THE CURRENT CBA 440 00:17:31,283 --> 00:17:32,518 INCLUDE ADDITIONS TO ARTICLE 15 441 00:17:32,518 --> 00:17:33,218 THAT CLEARLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND 442 00:17:33,218 --> 00:17:34,219 ADOPT THE PHILOSOPHY AND 443 00:17:34,219 --> 00:17:37,322 PURPOSE THAT UNDERPINS THE 444 00:17:37,322 --> 00:17:37,923 ACCOUNTABILITY ORDINANCE, 445 00:17:37,923 --> 00:17:38,457 INCLUDING PRIORITIZING 446 00:17:38,457 --> 00:17:40,959 COMMUNITY TRUST AND 447 00:17:40,959 --> 00:17:41,593 TRANSPARENCY AND RECOGNIZING 448 00:17:41,593 --> 00:17:48,167 THE ROLE OF PROPER POLICE 449 00:17:48,167 --> 00:17:48,667 LEGITIMACY, CLEARLY 450 00:17:48,667 --> 00:17:49,334 ACKNOWLEDGING PREPONDERANCE OF 451 00:17:49,334 --> 00:17:50,302 EVIDENCE AS THE STANDARD FOR 452 00:17:50,302 --> 00:17:55,374 APPEAL AND REFUTING REVIEW WITH 453 00:17:55,374 --> 00:17:59,244 DEFERENCE TO DECISIONS OF THE 454 00:17:59,244 --> 00:17:59,912 CHIEF. PROVIDING THE 455 00:17:59,912 --> 00:18:00,679 DISCIPLINE, REVIEW HEARINGS 456 00:18:00,679 --> 00:18:05,284 WILL BE MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE 457 00:18:05,284 --> 00:18:10,389 WHILE PRESERVING RIGHTS AND 458 00:18:10,389 --> 00:18:12,291 ADDRESSING A LOOPHOLE FOR 459 00:18:12,291 --> 00:18:14,393 CRIMES COMMITTED IN 460 00:18:14,393 --> 00:18:19,731 JURISDICTIONS AND ALLOWING 461 00:18:19,731 --> 00:18:21,767 STAFF TO MONITOR MEMBERS AND 462 00:18:21,767 --> 00:18:22,634 CLARIFY PROCESSES FOR MEDIATION 463 00:18:22,634 --> 00:18:26,805 AND RAPID ADJUDICATION. 464 00:18:26,805 --> 00:18:34,646 BARGAINING PARAMETERS INCLUDE 465 00:18:34,646 --> 00:18:35,314 RECORDS RETENTION, CONFORMANCE 466 00:18:35,314 --> 00:18:36,348 WITH STATE LAW AND ADDRESSING 467 00:18:36,348 --> 00:18:37,015 POTENTIALLY-CONCERNING ISSUES 468 00:18:37,015 --> 00:18:47,559 IN ARTICLE 16. OVERALL, THIS 469 00:18:53,165 --> 00:18:53,732 PROVIDES MEANINGFUL OVERSIGHT 470 00:18:53,732 --> 00:18:54,500 OF THE SEATTLE POLICE 471 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:55,167 DEPARTMENT AND INCREASES 472 00:18:55,167 --> 00:18:55,901 ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY 473 00:18:55,901 --> 00:18:56,635 TO THE COMMUNITY. ADDRESSING 474 00:18:56,635 --> 00:18:59,371 THESE REMAINING RECOMMENDATIONS 475 00:18:59,371 --> 00:19:00,372 IN FUTURE AGREEMENTS WILL 476 00:19:00,372 --> 00:19:01,006 FURTHER STRENGTHEN THE 477 00:19:01,006 --> 00:19:01,540 ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM 478 00:19:01,540 --> 00:19:02,541 ESTABLISHED BY THE CITY IN 479 00:19:02,541 --> 00:19:05,144 2017. THE OIG LOOKS FORWARD TO 480 00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:06,078 HEARING FROM THE PUBLIC 481 00:19:06,078 --> 00:19:08,347 TONIGHT. THANK YOU FOR HAVING 482 00:19:08,347 --> 00:19:08,580 US. 483 00:19:08,580 --> 00:19:09,915 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, DEPUTY 484 00:19:09,915 --> 00:19:11,683 DIRECTOR SCOTT. LASTLY WE HAVE 485 00:19:11,683 --> 00:19:15,954 OPA, OFFICE OF POLICE 486 00:19:15,954 --> 00:19:21,260 ACCOUNTABILITY, REPRESENTED BY 487 00:19:21,260 --> 00:19:21,860 JUSTIN. 488 00:19:21,860 --> 00:19:23,262 >> THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE THE 489 00:19:23,262 --> 00:19:24,396 OPPORTUNITY TO BE PART OF THE 490 00:19:24,396 --> 00:19:26,398 BARGAINING PROCESS TONIGHT, AND 491 00:19:26,398 --> 00:19:30,802 WE HOPE THAT THIS ALSO BRINGS 492 00:19:30,802 --> 00:19:36,475 US CLOSER TO THE ACCOUNTABILITY 493 00:19:36,475 --> 00:19:39,945 ORDINANCE. THIS ALSO ALLOWS US 494 00:19:39,945 --> 00:19:45,851 TO DO OUR JOBS AND REMOVE SOME 495 00:19:45,851 --> 00:19:46,952 OF THE PROCEDURAL ISSUES. THAT 496 00:19:46,952 --> 00:19:48,353 SAID, IT HAS ONLY BEEN IN PLACE 497 00:19:48,353 --> 00:19:50,022 FOR A LITTLE OVER A YEAR, SO WE 498 00:19:50,022 --> 00:19:50,656 HAVE LIMITED EXPERIENCE 499 00:19:50,656 --> 00:19:57,663 OPERATING UNDER THAT AGREEMENT 500 00:19:57,663 --> 00:19:59,431 . ROUGHLY LESS THAN 4% OF OUR 501 00:19:59,431 --> 00:20:00,399 CASES ACTUALLY FALL UNDER THE 502 00:20:00,399 --> 00:20:01,533 SPMA AGREEMENT. MOST OF THEM 503 00:20:01,533 --> 00:20:05,137 DEFAULT TO THE SPOG AGREEMENT , 504 00:20:05,137 --> 00:20:06,138 BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE MULTIPLE 505 00:20:06,138 --> 00:20:12,878 OFFICERS INVOLVED. SO THAT 506 00:20:12,878 --> 00:20:13,946 SAID, THE SPMA AGREEMENT MIGHT 507 00:20:13,946 --> 00:20:15,814 BE USED AS A BIT OF A MODEL FOR 508 00:20:15,814 --> 00:20:17,683 SPOG NEGOTIATIONS , WE HOPE. 509 00:20:17,683 --> 00:20:20,452 THAT IS PART OF OUR HOPE. SO 510 00:20:20,452 --> 00:20:24,289 WITH THAT SAID, WE ARE 511 00:20:24,289 --> 00:20:24,890 PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN 512 00:20:24,890 --> 00:20:26,592 HEARING FROM THE PUBLIC 513 00:20:26,592 --> 00:20:32,030 TONIGHT, AND MORE SPECIFICALLY 514 00:20:32,030 --> 00:20:33,065 ARE THERE PROVISIONS YOU HAVE 515 00:20:33,065 --> 00:20:34,266 PROBLEMS WITH IN THE CURRENT 516 00:20:34,266 --> 00:20:35,334 AGREEMENT? ARE THERE ONES YOU 517 00:20:35,334 --> 00:20:37,536 WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE, AND 518 00:20:37,536 --> 00:20:38,837 WHY? I VIEW THIS AS KIND OF 519 00:20:38,837 --> 00:20:44,142 LIKE A BOOK CLUB IN THE SENSE 520 00:20:44,142 --> 00:20:45,444 THAT WE ARE ALL KIND OF TALKING 521 00:20:45,444 --> 00:20:47,479 ABOUT THE SAME BOOK TONIGHT, WE 522 00:20:47,479 --> 00:20:49,047 HOPE. SO WITH THAT SAID, WE ARE 523 00:20:49,047 --> 00:20:50,048 HERE TO LISTEN. THANK YOU. 524 00:20:50,048 --> 00:20:51,216 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. I 525 00:20:51,216 --> 00:20:55,387 UNDERSTAND THAT WE MAY BE 526 00:20:55,387 --> 00:20:57,956 GETTING ADDITIONAL COMMENTS 527 00:20:57,956 --> 00:20:59,391 AFTER THIS MEETING FROM EACH OF 528 00:20:59,391 --> 00:21:02,594 THE THREE BODIES. IN THE PAST 529 00:21:02,594 --> 00:21:06,632 WE HAVE MEMORIALIZED WHAT WE 530 00:21:06,632 --> 00:21:08,100 HAVE HEARD IN THE FORM OF A 531 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:12,704 COUNCIL RESOLUTION. WE DO 532 00:21:12,704 --> 00:21:14,072 RECOGNIZE THAT I THINK MUCH OF 533 00:21:14,072 --> 00:21:16,308 THE FOCUS IS ABOUT RETAINING 534 00:21:16,308 --> 00:21:17,542 THE GAINS OF THE LAST CONTRACT, 535 00:21:17,542 --> 00:21:24,182 SO WE WILL, BASED ON OUR 536 00:21:24,182 --> 00:21:25,884 ANALYSIS OF THE FEEDBACK THAT 537 00:21:25,884 --> 00:21:27,119 WE ARE GETTING NOW, WE WILL 538 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:28,220 HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT 539 00:21:28,220 --> 00:21:29,187 WHETHER OR NOT WE WANT TO 540 00:21:29,187 --> 00:21:30,188 MEMORIALIZE THE INPUT THAT WE 541 00:21:30,188 --> 00:21:32,190 ARE RECEIVING IN THE FORM OF A 542 00:21:32,190 --> 00:21:33,058 COUNCIL RESOLUTION. SO NOW 543 00:21:33,058 --> 00:21:37,429 MOVING BACK UP TO THE THE 544 00:21:37,429 --> 00:21:43,368 PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE GENERAL 545 00:21:43,368 --> 00:21:46,371 PUBLIC, JUST GIVING THE RULES 546 00:21:46,371 --> 00:21:47,272 FOR THAT PROCESS, EACH SPEAKER 547 00:21:47,272 --> 00:21:48,540 IS GIVEN TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. 548 00:21:48,540 --> 00:21:50,742 I WILL ALTERNATE BETWEEN 549 00:21:50,742 --> 00:21:51,677 VIRTUAL AND IN PERSON PUBLIC 550 00:21:51,677 --> 00:21:53,078 COMMENTERS AND I WILL CALL ON 551 00:21:53,078 --> 00:21:55,080 EACH SPEAKER BY NAME AND IN THE 552 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,181 ORDER IN WHICH THEY REGISTERED 553 00:21:56,181 --> 00:21:58,984 ON THE COUNCIL WEBSITE AND SIGN 554 00:21:58,984 --> 00:22:00,152 IN FORM. IF YOU HAVE NOT 555 00:22:00,152 --> 00:22:01,353 REGISTERED YET TO SPEAK BUT YOU 556 00:22:01,353 --> 00:22:11,897 WANT TO DO SO, YOU CAN STILL 557 00:22:12,698 --> 00:22:13,932 DO SO BEFORE THE END OF THE 558 00:22:13,932 --> 00:22:15,000 PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION. WHEN I 559 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,134 CALL A SPEAKER'S NAME IF YOU 560 00:22:16,134 --> 00:22:17,369 ARE USING THE VIRTUAL ITEM, WE 561 00:22:17,369 --> 00:22:18,770 ASK THAT YOU LISTEN FOR THE 562 00:22:18,770 --> 00:22:19,938 PROMPT, AND ONCE YOU HAVE HEARD 563 00:22:19,938 --> 00:22:21,139 THE PROMPT, WE ASK THAT YOU 564 00:22:21,139 --> 00:22:22,074 PRESS STAR SIX TO UNMUTE 565 00:22:22,074 --> 00:22:23,108 YOURSELF. PLEASE SPEAK -- BEGIN 566 00:22:23,108 --> 00:22:24,176 SPEAKING BY STATING YOUR NAME 567 00:22:24,176 --> 00:22:25,310 AND THE ITEM WHICH YOU ARE 568 00:22:25,310 --> 00:22:26,144 ADDRESSING. SPEAKERS WILL HEAR 569 00:22:26,144 --> 00:22:27,512 A CHIME WHEN 10 SECONDS ARE 570 00:22:27,512 --> 00:22:29,247 LEFT OF THE ALLOTTE TIME. ONCE 571 00:22:29,247 --> 00:22:30,415 THE SPEAKER HERE'S THE CHIME WE 572 00:22:30,415 --> 00:22:34,119 ASK THAT YOU BEGIN TO WRAP UP 573 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:35,354 YOUR COMMENTS. WHEN SPEAKERS DO 574 00:22:35,354 --> 00:22:36,321 NOT END THERE COMMENTS THEY 575 00:22:36,321 --> 00:22:37,055 WILL HAVE TIME PROVIDED, 576 00:22:37,055 --> 00:22:37,656 UNFORTUNATELY. THE SPEAKER 577 00:22:37,656 --> 00:22:38,690 MICROPHONE IS MUTED AFTER 10 578 00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:42,994 SECONDS TO ALLOW US TO HEAR 579 00:22:42,994 --> 00:22:44,363 FROM THE NEXT SPEAKER. WE HAVE 580 00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:45,430 12 SPEAKERS SIGNED IN AND EIGHT 581 00:22:45,430 --> 00:22:51,169 PEOPLE IN PERSON FOR SPEAKING 582 00:22:51,169 --> 00:22:53,772 VIRTUALLY. I WILL START WITH 583 00:22:53,772 --> 00:22:56,141 THE -- EXCELLENT! START WITH 584 00:22:56,141 --> 00:23:02,781 THE IN PERSON PUBLIC SPEAKERS, 585 00:23:02,781 --> 00:23:04,149 AND PRESENTERS, YOU ARE 586 00:23:04,149 --> 00:23:04,950 WELCOME TO CONTINUE SITTING 587 00:23:04,950 --> 00:23:10,422 THERE OR YOU CAN [ LAUGHTER ] 588 00:23:10,422 --> 00:23:11,590 YOU CANNOT! WHATEVER YOU ARE 589 00:23:11,590 --> 00:23:12,624 MOST COMFORTABLE DOING. WE WILL 590 00:23:12,624 --> 00:23:15,794 START WITH KATHLEEN FOLLOWED BY 591 00:23:15,794 --> 00:23:16,194 AMY SUMMERS. 592 00:23:16,194 --> 00:23:20,132 >> GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS 593 00:23:20,132 --> 00:23:21,333 KATHLEEN BURROWS AND I AM A 594 00:23:21,333 --> 00:23:23,068 RESIDENT OF DOWNTOWN BALLARD. I 595 00:23:23,068 --> 00:23:27,405 LIVE ACROSS FROM THE NIAGARA 596 00:23:27,405 --> 00:23:32,577 EARNERS HOUSE, WHICH IS 597 00:23:32,577 --> 00:23:35,413 TRANSITIONAL HOUSING. I SUPPORT 598 00:23:35,413 --> 00:23:38,884 THE SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT . 599 00:23:38,884 --> 00:23:44,723 DEFUNDING THE POLICE WAS, IN MY 600 00:23:44,723 --> 00:23:46,358 BOOK , A COLOSSAL FAILURE. I 601 00:23:46,358 --> 00:23:47,793 WANT TO SEE -- I WANT TO KEEP 602 00:23:47,793 --> 00:23:49,194 THE POLICE WE HAVE AND I WANT 603 00:23:49,194 --> 00:23:55,200 TO SEE MORE POLICE ON THE 604 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,102 STREETS. I WOULD LIKE TO MAYBE 605 00:23:57,102 --> 00:23:58,136 SEE SOMEBODY WALKING THE BEAT 606 00:23:58,136 --> 00:23:59,271 IN DOWNTOWN BALLARD. I AM TIRED 607 00:23:59,271 --> 00:24:02,808 OF SEEING BROKEN WINDOWS AND 608 00:24:02,808 --> 00:24:03,675 GRAFFITI, AND MAYBE SOMETHING 609 00:24:03,675 --> 00:24:04,676 LIKE THE NAVIGATION TEAM. I 610 00:24:04,676 --> 00:24:05,944 WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT RETURN. 611 00:24:05,944 --> 00:24:09,381 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 612 00:24:09,381 --> 00:24:10,682 >> THANK YOU. I WOULD REQUEST 613 00:24:10,682 --> 00:24:14,553 THAT PEOPLE SPEAK TO THE TOPIC 614 00:24:14,553 --> 00:24:15,520 OF THE PUBLIC HEARING THIS 615 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:16,655 EVENING, WHICH IS THE INPUT 616 00:24:16,655 --> 00:24:21,159 THAT THE PUBLIC IS GIVING TO 617 00:24:21,159 --> 00:24:21,893 THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE 618 00:24:21,893 --> 00:24:22,828 INVOLVED IN NEGOTIATING THE 619 00:24:22,828 --> 00:24:23,528 CONTRACT WITH THE SEATTLE 620 00:24:23,528 --> 00:24:25,964 POLICE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION. 621 00:24:25,964 --> 00:24:27,332 IN MY PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE I 622 00:24:27,332 --> 00:24:28,233 DO HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY TO 623 00:24:28,233 --> 00:24:32,204 ADDRESS OTHER, BROADER AND MORE 624 00:24:32,204 --> 00:24:33,338 PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES, BUT FOR 625 00:24:33,338 --> 00:24:34,539 THE PURPOSE OF THIS HEARING IT 626 00:24:34,539 --> 00:24:35,307 IS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR 627 00:24:35,307 --> 00:24:36,875 THE TOPIC OF THE PUBLIC 628 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:37,809 HEARING, WHICH IS THE CONTRACT 629 00:24:37,809 --> 00:24:39,211 WITH SPMA. THANK YOU! OUR NEXT 630 00:24:39,211 --> 00:24:42,047 SPEAKER IS AMY SUMMERS, AND ANY 631 00:24:42,047 --> 00:24:47,686 WILL BE FOLLOWED BY CAROLYN 632 00:24:47,686 --> 00:24:48,487 MALONE. 633 00:24:48,487 --> 00:24:49,688 >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS. 634 00:24:49,688 --> 00:24:51,756 MY NAME IS AMY SUMMERS AND I AM 635 00:24:51,756 --> 00:24:56,027 A MEMBER OF PROACTIVE 636 00:24:56,027 --> 00:24:56,761 PERSISTENT PEOPLE FOR PROGRESS, 637 00:24:56,761 --> 00:25:01,700 WHICH IS A CITIZENS' 638 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:02,634 ORGANIZATION. WE ARE HERE 639 00:25:02,634 --> 00:25:03,602 BECAUSE WE ARE VERY CONCERNED 640 00:25:03,602 --> 00:25:07,339 ABOUT THE IMPERATIVE THAT THE 641 00:25:07,339 --> 00:25:08,006 2017 ACCOUNTABILITY ORDINANCE 642 00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:08,673 BE FULLY INCORPORATED INTO THE 643 00:25:08,673 --> 00:25:09,374 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT 644 00:25:09,374 --> 00:25:18,617 WITH SPMA . WE THINK THAT THE 645 00:25:18,617 --> 00:25:19,818 CURRENT FORM OF THE AGREEMENT, 646 00:25:19,818 --> 00:25:20,952 WHILE OTHERS HAVE NOTED THAT IT 647 00:25:20,952 --> 00:25:21,920 IS AN IMPROVEMENT, THERE ARE 648 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:23,255 STILL PROVISIONS AND GAPS. THE 649 00:25:23,255 --> 00:25:23,922 REPRESENTATIVE IS ASKED FOR 650 00:25:23,922 --> 00:25:25,123 COMMENTS ON THEM. I WILL JUST 651 00:25:25,123 --> 00:25:28,860 DRAW SEVERAL TO THE COUNCIL 652 00:25:28,860 --> 00:25:29,728 ATTENTION. SECTION 12.2 NOTES 653 00:25:29,728 --> 00:25:34,399 THAT EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY ARE 654 00:25:34,399 --> 00:25:35,333 GOVERNED BY APPLICABLE CITY 655 00:25:35,333 --> 00:25:36,067 ORDINANCES AND SAID THAT 656 00:25:36,067 --> 00:25:36,768 ORDINANCES ARE PARAMOUNT, 657 00:25:36,768 --> 00:25:37,836 EXCEPT WHERE THEY CONFLICT WITH 658 00:25:37,836 --> 00:25:45,577 THE EXPRESS PROVISIONS 659 00:25:45,577 --> 00:25:46,811 AGREEMENT. 16.6 REFERS TO THE 660 00:25:46,811 --> 00:25:47,913 BILL OF RIGHTS AND SPELLS OUT 661 00:25:47,913 --> 00:25:48,880 THE MINIMUM RIGHTS OF AN 662 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,382 OFFICER BUT THEN IT GOES ON TO 663 00:25:50,382 --> 00:25:51,583 STATE THAT WHERE THE LANGUAGE 664 00:25:51,583 --> 00:25:53,018 OF THE CONTRACT OR PASS 665 00:25:53,018 --> 00:25:53,885 PRACTICES GRANT THE OFFICER 666 00:25:53,885 --> 00:25:56,922 GREATER RIGHTS, THOSE GREATER 667 00:25:56,922 --> 00:26:01,860 RIGHTS SHALL RETAIN. THAT, TO 668 00:26:01,860 --> 00:26:02,794 OUR COMMUNITY, SEEMS LIKE 669 00:26:02,794 --> 00:26:03,628 OPENING UP TERRIBLE POTENTIAL 670 00:26:03,628 --> 00:26:04,763 FOR GOING BACK RATHER THAN 671 00:26:04,763 --> 00:26:10,936 FORWARD. A THIRD PROVISION 672 00:26:10,936 --> 00:26:12,203 REFERS TO THE RESULTS OF THE 673 00:26:12,203 --> 00:26:14,806 BARGAINING ON THE 674 00:26:14,806 --> 00:26:15,373 ACCOUNTABILITY ORDINANCE 675 00:26:15,373 --> 00:26:20,178 BETWEEN THE PARTIES IN 676 00:26:20,178 --> 00:26:21,212 ACCORDANCE WITH THIS. THE CITY 677 00:26:21,212 --> 00:26:26,918 MAY, NO IT DOES NOT SAY MUST, 678 00:26:26,918 --> 00:26:27,686 MAY IMPLEMENT THE 679 00:26:27,686 --> 00:26:28,353 ACCOUNTABILITY ORDINANCE. THE 680 00:26:28,353 --> 00:26:29,120 ASSOCIATION RETAINS THE RIGHT 681 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:32,824 TO BARGAIN ANY UNFORESEEN 682 00:26:32,824 --> 00:26:33,558 EFFECTS OF RISING 683 00:26:33,558 --> 00:26:34,092 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 684 00:26:34,092 --> 00:26:34,793 ACCOUNTABILITY ORDINANCE. THAT 685 00:26:34,793 --> 00:26:39,230 IS VERY TROUBLING TO US. WE 686 00:26:39,230 --> 00:26:40,565 URGE THE COUNCIL AND AS PMA TO 687 00:26:40,565 --> 00:26:41,232 FINALIZE UNEQUIVOCAL LANGUAGE 688 00:26:41,232 --> 00:26:42,167 SAYING THAT OFFICERS ARE 689 00:26:42,167 --> 00:26:49,007 SUBJECT TO THE 2017 ORDINANCE. 690 00:26:49,007 --> 00:26:55,947 THANK YOU. 691 00:26:55,947 --> 00:26:57,282 >> THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER 692 00:26:57,282 --> 00:26:58,016 WILL BE CAROLYN MALONE, 693 00:26:58,016 --> 00:27:04,789 FOLLOWED BY TODD SNARR. 694 00:27:04,789 --> 00:27:05,991 >> THANK YOU. MY NAME IS 695 00:27:05,991 --> 00:27:10,562 CAROLYN MALONE, AND I, ALONG 696 00:27:10,562 --> 00:27:11,529 WITH EVERYBODY ELSE, WOULD LIKE 697 00:27:11,529 --> 00:27:12,897 TO KNOW WHO THESE FAKE POLICE 698 00:27:12,897 --> 00:27:13,865 OFFICERS WERE WHO WENT TO 699 00:27:13,865 --> 00:27:14,966 WASHINGTON, D.C. NOT TO SERVE 700 00:27:14,966 --> 00:27:16,034 AND PROTECT, BUT TO DESTROY. 701 00:27:16,034 --> 00:27:17,369 WHY DON'T WE LET THE PUBLIC 702 00:27:17,369 --> 00:27:21,673 KNOW WHO THESE OFFICERS ARE? MY 703 00:27:21,673 --> 00:27:22,741 PARTICULAR TOPIC, ONE OF MANY 704 00:27:22,741 --> 00:27:25,543 TO TALK ABOUT, IS POLICE 705 00:27:25,543 --> 00:27:26,644 PRESENCE IN MY BUILDING. THEY 706 00:27:26,644 --> 00:27:28,013 HAVE NO RIGHT TO MAINTAIN 707 00:27:28,013 --> 00:27:32,283 SURVEILLANCE ON ME BECAUSE I AM 708 00:27:32,283 --> 00:27:33,785 A MILDLY BLACK WOMAN WHO STANDS 709 00:27:33,785 --> 00:27:37,789 UP FOR HER RIGHTS. EACH TIME I 710 00:27:37,789 --> 00:27:43,294 CONTACT AN AGENCY TO GET THEM 711 00:27:43,294 --> 00:27:44,396 TO STOP POLICE HARASSMENT OR 712 00:27:44,396 --> 00:27:48,433 REMOVE THEM FROM MY BUILDING 713 00:27:48,433 --> 00:27:50,435 AND ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE, I AM 714 00:27:50,435 --> 00:27:53,204 THWARTED, HARASSED, INTERFERED 715 00:27:53,204 --> 00:27:54,105 WITH. POLICE HARASSMENT BEGAN 716 00:27:54,105 --> 00:28:01,613 AGAINST ME WHEN MY DRIVERS 717 00:28:01,613 --> 00:28:03,715 LICENSE OF 55 YEARS WAS 718 00:28:03,715 --> 00:28:04,482 TERMINATED WITHOUT DUE PROCESS. 719 00:28:04,482 --> 00:28:07,685 MY CAR A YEAR LATER WITH ENGINE 720 00:28:07,685 --> 00:28:13,291 DAMAGE. A LAWSUIT. JUDGE MARSHA 721 00:28:13,291 --> 00:28:15,460 WAS ASSIGNED TO ME AND 722 00:28:15,460 --> 00:28:17,862 MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARED. EACH 723 00:28:17,862 --> 00:28:21,900 TIME I WOULD FIGHT, CONTINUE TO 724 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:24,702 GO AFTER POLICE TO STOP THE 725 00:28:24,702 --> 00:28:26,538 HARASSMENT, RETALIATION, 726 00:28:26,538 --> 00:28:30,742 INTIMIDATION. I AM HARASSED 727 00:28:30,742 --> 00:28:32,143 EVEN MORE. SO I WOULD LIKE TO 728 00:28:32,143 --> 00:28:33,344 KNOW WHO THESE SUPPOSEDLY 729 00:28:33,344 --> 00:28:38,116 LAW-ABIDING PUBLIC SERVANTS WHO 730 00:28:38,116 --> 00:28:40,285 WENT TO WASHINGTON, D.C. TO DO 731 00:28:40,285 --> 00:28:43,154 EXACTLY OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY 732 00:28:43,154 --> 00:28:46,424 TOOK AN OATH TO DO. I WOULD 733 00:28:46,424 --> 00:28:48,426 ALSO LIKE INTERVENTION FROM THE 734 00:28:48,426 --> 00:28:53,965 APPROPRIATE AGENCY TO STOP 735 00:28:53,965 --> 00:28:56,034 POLICE HARASSMENT, RETALIATION 736 00:28:56,034 --> 00:28:57,936 AND REMOVAL FROM MY BUILDING 737 00:28:57,936 --> 00:29:03,041 WITH THEIR ILLEGAL AUDIO/VIDEO 738 00:29:03,041 --> 00:29:07,779 IN MY UNIT. POLICE HARASSMENT 739 00:29:07,779 --> 00:29:09,080 MUST STOP AGAINST PEOPLE WHO 740 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,485 SPEAK OUT! JOSEPH CLAIMS TO BE 741 00:29:13,485 --> 00:29:18,156 A SOCIAL WORKER AT CHANCERY 742 00:29:18,156 --> 00:29:19,057 PLACE APARTMENTS. I CHALLENGE 743 00:29:19,057 --> 00:29:23,661 THAT! THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, I 744 00:29:23,661 --> 00:29:24,996 DO BELIEVE, HAS NO SOCIAL 745 00:29:24,996 --> 00:29:26,164 WORKERS. THANK YOU. 746 00:29:26,164 --> 00:29:27,966 >> THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER 747 00:29:27,966 --> 00:29:31,736 IS TODD SNARR, WHO WILL BE 748 00:29:31,736 --> 00:29:38,143 FOLLOWED BY HOWARD GALE. 749 00:29:38,143 --> 00:29:39,444 >> REAL QUICK BEFORE I GET 750 00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:40,778 STARTED, I WANT TO MAKE SURE OF 751 00:29:40,778 --> 00:29:45,250 WHAT YOU MENTIONED ON THE 752 00:29:45,250 --> 00:29:46,384 RULES. COULD YOU KIND OF 753 00:29:46,384 --> 00:29:47,619 EXPLAIN THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE 754 00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:48,953 TO ME ON THE RULES ABOUT OUR 755 00:29:48,953 --> 00:29:49,254 COMMENTS? 756 00:29:49,254 --> 00:29:50,622 >> SURE. THIS IS A PUBLIC 757 00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:51,789 HEARING TO GIVE THE CITY INPUT 758 00:29:51,789 --> 00:29:56,427 TO THE NEXT SEATTLE POLICE 759 00:29:56,427 --> 00:29:56,961 MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION 760 00:29:56,961 --> 00:29:57,829 CONTRACT. WE ASK THAT PEOPLE 761 00:29:57,829 --> 00:30:01,533 DIRECT THEIR COMMENT IN THE 762 00:30:01,533 --> 00:30:02,300 PUBLIC HEARING TOWARDS THE 763 00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:06,004 ELEMENTS OF THE CONTRACT THAT 764 00:30:06,004 --> 00:30:07,438 YOU FEEL THE CITY NEEDS TO WORK 765 00:30:07,438 --> 00:30:09,207 ON ADDRESSING. 766 00:30:09,207 --> 00:30:12,076 >> DIRECTLY WITH THE CONTRACT? 767 00:30:12,076 --> 00:30:12,210 768 00:30:12,210 --> 00:30:12,577 >> CORRECT. 769 00:30:12,577 --> 00:30:14,879 >> I AM HOPING THAT I COULD 770 00:30:14,879 --> 00:30:16,147 HAVE THE ABILITY TO SHARE MY 771 00:30:16,147 --> 00:30:19,751 THOUGHTS AND CONCERNS. IF YOU 772 00:30:19,751 --> 00:30:21,986 COULD JUST ALLOW ME THAT TWO 773 00:30:21,986 --> 00:30:22,287 MINUTES? 774 00:30:22,287 --> 00:30:22,620 >> SURE. 775 00:30:22,620 --> 00:30:32,096 >> MY NAME IS TODD SNARR. I 776 00:30:32,096 --> 00:30:33,464 SPENT TIME IN THE U.S. NAVY AND 777 00:30:33,464 --> 00:30:36,467 AS A RESOLUTIONS REP WITH IRS. 778 00:30:36,467 --> 00:30:38,069 SINCE 2010 I AM THE OWNER OF MY 779 00:30:38,069 --> 00:30:41,072 OWN ACCOUNTING BUSINESS. I DO 780 00:30:41,072 --> 00:30:42,273 NOT LIVE HERE. I AM IN 781 00:30:42,273 --> 00:30:43,408 WASHINGTON STATE. I HAVE LIVED 782 00:30:43,408 --> 00:30:46,845 OVER IN CLARKSTON, WASHINGTON 783 00:30:46,845 --> 00:30:48,346 . I DO HAVE CLIENTS THAT LIVE 784 00:30:48,346 --> 00:30:53,818 OVER HERE. I HAVE OBSERVED ALL 785 00:30:53,818 --> 00:30:54,652 THE INFORMATION THAT TRANSPIRES 786 00:30:54,652 --> 00:30:55,887 HERE IN SEATTLE. WHEN IT COMES 787 00:30:55,887 --> 00:30:56,888 TO PUBLIC SAFETY, WHAT THAT 788 00:30:56,888 --> 00:30:59,324 MEANS TO ME IS LAW AND ORDER. 789 00:30:59,324 --> 00:31:00,692 WE MUST HAVE LAW AND ORDER. 790 00:31:00,692 --> 00:31:02,126 YES, THERE NEEDS TO BE 791 00:31:02,126 --> 00:31:03,628 ACCOUNTABILITY, ACCOUNTABILITY 792 00:31:03,628 --> 00:31:09,434 WITH EVERYBODY. NOT JUST POLICE 793 00:31:09,434 --> 00:31:16,841 OFFICERS. 794 00:32:01,686 --> 00:32:02,820 AND ALL THE EMPLOYEES WHO WORK 795 00:32:02,820 --> 00:32:04,656 FOR THAT OWNER ARE PROBABLY OUT 796 00:32:04,656 --> 00:32:06,958 OF A JOB FOR HAVING TO REBUILD 797 00:32:06,958 --> 00:32:08,459 THEIR STORE WHEN THEY SHUT IT 798 00:32:08,459 --> 00:32:11,095 DOWN. ANYWAYS, PLEASE BRING 799 00:32:11,095 --> 00:32:16,434 BACK THE POLICE FORCE. IF A 800 00:32:16,434 --> 00:32:17,335 POLICE OFFICER VIOLATES THEIR 801 00:32:17,335 --> 00:32:20,138 OATH, THEY MUST BE HELD 802 00:32:20,138 --> 00:32:21,039 ACCOUNTABLE. BUT MOST POLICE 803 00:32:21,039 --> 00:32:21,906 OFFICERS ARE GOOD CITIZENS LIKE 804 00:32:21,906 --> 00:32:25,443 ANYBODY ELSE. THANK YOU! 805 00:32:25,443 --> 00:32:26,744 >> THE NEXT SPEAKER IS HOWARD 806 00:32:26,744 --> 00:32:27,879 GALE AND HOWARD WILL BE 807 00:32:27,879 --> 00:32:38,289 FOLLOWED BY VALERIE . 808 00:32:40,358 --> 00:32:41,259 >> OVER THREE YEARS AFTER THE 809 00:32:41,259 --> 00:32:42,560 POLICE RIOTS OF 2020, THE CITY 810 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:43,861 STILL PLANS TO NEGOTIATE A NEW 811 00:32:43,861 --> 00:32:44,962 CONTRACT WITH SPMA AS THEY ARE 812 00:32:44,962 --> 00:32:50,435 WITH SPOG WITH THE MAXIMAL 813 00:32:50,435 --> 00:32:51,502 DEMANDS , THE MAXIMAL DEMANDS 814 00:32:51,502 --> 00:32:52,804 STILL BASED ON THE FAILED 2017 815 00:32:52,804 --> 00:32:54,939 LEGISLATION. THAT IS WHY 816 00:32:54,939 --> 00:32:55,907 TODAY'S HEARING IS PURELY 817 00:32:55,907 --> 00:33:02,046 PERFORMATIVE AND POINTLESS , AS 818 00:33:02,046 --> 00:33:03,247 INDICATED BY THE TOTAL LACK OF 819 00:33:03,247 --> 00:33:04,215 PARTICIPATION. WE MIGHT HAVE 10 820 00:33:04,215 --> 00:33:07,385 PEOPLE SPEAKING TODAY. WE KNOW 821 00:33:07,385 --> 00:33:08,386 THAT THIS IS POINTLESS BECAUSE 822 00:33:08,386 --> 00:33:13,124 COMMUNITY INPUT WAS SOUGHT IN 823 00:33:13,124 --> 00:33:14,258 2021 WITH THE CLEAREST DEMAND 824 00:33:14,258 --> 00:33:15,126 BEING THE POLICE STOP 825 00:33:15,126 --> 00:33:15,727 INVESTIGATING THEIR FELLOW 826 00:33:15,727 --> 00:33:18,129 OFFICERS. THIS WAS IMMEDIATELY 827 00:33:18,129 --> 00:33:24,168 REJECTED, AND INSTEAD THE CPC 828 00:33:24,168 --> 00:33:26,938 FORWARDED RECOMMENDATIONS AS 829 00:33:26,938 --> 00:33:28,172 IN THE 2017 ORDINANCE TO 830 00:33:28,172 --> 00:33:28,840 MAINTAIN POLICE INVESTIGATING 831 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:29,607 POLICE, A SYSTEM THAT WAS 832 00:33:29,607 --> 00:33:30,808 ENTIRELY REJECTED BY THE STATE 833 00:33:30,808 --> 00:33:31,642 LEGISLATURE IN 2021 WHEN THEY 834 00:33:31,642 --> 00:33:37,281 SET UP THE OFFICE OF 835 00:33:37,281 --> 00:33:39,517 INVESTIGATIONS. IT IS ALSO A 836 00:33:39,517 --> 00:33:40,451 SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN TOTALLY 837 00:33:40,451 --> 00:33:41,819 REJECTED BY EVERY CITY THAT HAS 838 00:33:41,819 --> 00:33:42,653 PUT FORTH POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY 839 00:33:42,653 --> 00:33:48,292 SINCE GEORGE FORD. MOST NOTABLE 840 00:33:48,292 --> 00:33:49,427 IN CITY DEMANDS, THEY WILL 841 00:33:49,427 --> 00:33:50,128 STILL ALLOW POLICE TO 842 00:33:50,128 --> 00:33:51,095 INVESTIGATE POLICE, STILL ALLOW 843 00:33:51,095 --> 00:33:51,996 FOR ARBITRATION AND STILL ALLOW 844 00:33:51,996 --> 00:33:53,131 THE POLICE CHIEF TO SUMMARILY 845 00:33:53,131 --> 00:33:54,031 OVERRULE ALL DISCIPLINE. THE 846 00:33:54,031 --> 00:33:55,099 BOTTOM LINE IS THAT WHERE 847 00:33:55,099 --> 00:34:00,805 DOZENS OF U.S. CITIES HAVE 848 00:34:00,805 --> 00:34:01,706 LEARNED FROM SUMMER 2020, 849 00:34:01,706 --> 00:34:02,640 SEATTLE REMAINS STUCK IN THE 850 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:03,841 FAILED EXPERIMENT 2017. LET ME 851 00:34:03,841 --> 00:34:11,182 POINT OUT THAT NO MATTER , IF 852 00:34:11,182 --> 00:34:12,116 EVERY ASPECT OF THE 2017 853 00:34:12,116 --> 00:34:13,317 ORDINANCE WAS IMPLEMENT IT, WE 854 00:34:13,317 --> 00:34:14,185 STILL WOULD'VE HAD THE SUMMER 855 00:34:14,185 --> 00:34:15,219 OF 2020 AND THE REPEATED 856 00:34:15,219 --> 00:34:16,154 KILLINGS EVERY YEAR OF SOMEONE 857 00:34:16,154 --> 00:34:17,522 IN A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS. WHY? 858 00:34:17,522 --> 00:34:18,523 BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE POLICE 859 00:34:18,523 --> 00:34:23,294 INVESTIGATING POLICE, AND IN 860 00:34:23,294 --> 00:34:24,695 THE RARE INSTANCE WHERE THEY DO 861 00:34:24,695 --> 00:34:25,696 A HALFWAY REASONABLE JOB, THAT 862 00:34:25,696 --> 00:34:26,697 IS THEN OVERTURNED BY THE 863 00:34:26,697 --> 00:34:28,099 POLICE CHIEF. THIS HAS TO STOP. 864 00:34:28,099 --> 00:34:29,233 WE HAVE TO HAVE POLICE 865 00:34:29,233 --> 00:34:32,570 ACCOUNTABILITY WITHOUT THE 866 00:34:32,570 --> 00:34:33,671 INTERFERENCE OF GROUPS LIKE THE 867 00:34:33,671 --> 00:34:38,242 CPC, OPA AND OIG. THANK YOU. 868 00:34:38,242 --> 00:34:39,410 >> THANK YOU. BEFORE WE HEAR 869 00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:41,679 FROM OUR NEXT SPEAKER, MR. 870 00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:41,946 CLARK? 871 00:34:41,946 --> 00:34:43,014 >> TECHNICAL ISSUE APPEARS TO 872 00:34:43,014 --> 00:34:47,218 HAVE BEEN FIXED. 873 00:34:47,218 --> 00:34:48,619 >> OKAY, WE NEED TO RESTART THE 874 00:34:48,619 --> 00:34:51,088 RECORDING HERE, SO -- SEATTLE 875 00:34:51,088 --> 00:35:00,731 CHANNEL, ARE YOU OKAY? WE ARE 876 00:35:00,731 --> 00:35:01,899 GOING TO RESTART THE RECORDING 877 00:35:01,899 --> 00:35:02,767 HERE. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT 878 00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:10,108 HAPPENED. STANDBY PLEASE. 879 00:35:10,108 --> 00:35:10,641 THANK YOU. 880 00:35:10,641 --> 00:35:19,917 >> MY NAME IS VALERIE 881 00:35:19,917 --> 00:35:21,419 CHLARETTE, AND I HAVE TO SAY 882 00:35:21,419 --> 00:35:22,653 THAT THE MORE THINGS CHANGE IN 883 00:35:22,653 --> 00:35:27,091 SEATTLE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE 884 00:35:27,091 --> 00:35:30,995 SAME. PEOPLE HAD EXPERIENCED 885 00:35:30,995 --> 00:35:31,996 AGGRESSIVE RESPONSES TO THE 886 00:35:31,996 --> 00:35:36,167 BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS. 887 00:35:36,167 --> 00:35:44,575 WAS THERE ACCOUNTABILITY? NO. 888 00:35:44,575 --> 00:35:45,910 DID THE POLICE CHANGE? NO. WE 889 00:35:45,910 --> 00:35:47,111 SAW THAT DURING THE RESPONSE TO 890 00:35:47,111 --> 00:35:48,312 THE PROTESTS IN 2020. OVER THE 891 00:35:48,312 --> 00:35:49,480 YEARS, AND THERE ARE MANY WAYS, 892 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:50,748 THE PUBLIC HAS LET COUNCIL AND 893 00:35:50,748 --> 00:35:51,415 ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNERS KNOW 894 00:35:51,415 --> 00:35:54,385 WHAT WE THINK OF POLICING IN 895 00:35:54,385 --> 00:35:55,686 SEATTLE AND THAT WE THINK OF 896 00:35:55,686 --> 00:35:56,420 ACCOUNTABILITY AND WHAT WE 897 00:35:56,420 --> 00:36:01,325 THINK OF REFORM UNDER THE 898 00:36:01,325 --> 00:36:02,493 CONSENT DECREE. FOR PEOPLE WHO 899 00:36:02,493 --> 00:36:03,761 REALLY KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON, 900 00:36:03,761 --> 00:36:08,533 WE DO NOT THINK MUCH OF IT. IT 901 00:36:08,533 --> 00:36:09,700 IS NOT IMPRESSIVE. THE PROCESS 902 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:13,905 OF PUBLIC CONSULTATION IS ALSO 903 00:36:13,905 --> 00:36:14,572 EXTREMELY UNIMPRESSIVE. IF 904 00:36:14,572 --> 00:36:15,673 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WATCHING 905 00:36:15,673 --> 00:36:16,774 THIS COULD SEE THE VERY SPARSE 906 00:36:16,774 --> 00:36:18,042 TURNOUT IN THIS CHAMBER OF THE 907 00:36:18,042 --> 00:36:24,181 PUBLIC TO DISCUSS SUCH AN 908 00:36:24,181 --> 00:36:26,417 IMPORTANT SUBJECT, THEY MIGHT 909 00:36:26,417 --> 00:36:27,685 WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON. 910 00:36:27,685 --> 00:36:29,053 WHAT IS GOING ON IS THAT THIS 911 00:36:29,053 --> 00:36:30,054 SO-CALLED PUBLIC HEARING WAS 912 00:36:30,054 --> 00:36:30,922 ANNOUNCED ONLINE BY CITY 913 00:36:30,922 --> 00:36:41,399 COUNCIL EIGHT DAYS AGO IN 914 00:36:44,702 --> 00:36:45,403 COUNCILMEMBER HERBOLD'S BLOG 915 00:36:45,403 --> 00:36:46,871 AND IN A TWITTER POST BY HER 916 00:36:46,871 --> 00:36:47,905 FOUR DAYS AGO. IT REALLY DOES 917 00:36:47,905 --> 00:36:48,906 NOT ALLOW ENOUGH TIME FOR 918 00:36:48,906 --> 00:36:50,041 UNPAID MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC 919 00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:51,375 WHO ARE ACTIVISTS, WHO MAY 920 00:36:51,375 --> 00:36:52,210 HAVE BEEN EGREGIOUSLY HARMED BY 921 00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:53,344 POLICING, TO PUT TOGETHER AN 922 00:36:53,344 --> 00:36:54,245 IMPRESSIVE AND INFORMED SHOW A 923 00:36:54,245 --> 00:36:57,315 PUBLIC COMMENT. SO I THINK THAT 924 00:36:57,315 --> 00:36:58,549 WE CAN ASSUME THAT GOING INTO 925 00:36:58,549 --> 00:37:06,023 THIS ROUND OF AS PMA CONTRACT 926 00:37:06,023 --> 00:37:06,791 NEGOTIATIONS, THE PUBLIC IS 927 00:37:06,791 --> 00:37:12,463 REALLY NOT REPRESENTED. THIS IS 928 00:37:12,463 --> 00:37:13,931 NOT -- THIS REALLY IS NOT 929 00:37:13,931 --> 00:37:15,299 SATISFACTORY AT ALL. IT IS A 930 00:37:15,299 --> 00:37:15,766 SHAM. THANK YOU. 931 00:37:15,766 --> 00:37:17,001 >> THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER 932 00:37:17,001 --> 00:37:18,302 IS ERIC SIMMONS AND ERIC WILL 933 00:37:18,302 --> 00:37:19,670 BE FOLLOWED BY CARRIE KAPLAN. 934 00:37:19,670 --> 00:37:27,979 >> THANK YOU . TESTING, 935 00:37:27,979 --> 00:37:29,246 TESTING, HELLO! MY NAME IS ERIC 936 00:37:29,246 --> 00:37:30,715 SIMMONS. I AM HERE TO SPEAK ON 937 00:37:30,715 --> 00:37:31,549 THE JOB PERFORMANCE OF THE 938 00:37:31,549 --> 00:37:37,188 POLICE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF 939 00:37:37,188 --> 00:37:39,590 A QUEER PERSON LIVING IN THE 940 00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:41,058 CITY. WE ALL AGREE THAT SPD ARE 941 00:37:41,058 --> 00:37:42,093 CURRENTLY INCAPABLE OF KEEPING 942 00:37:42,093 --> 00:37:47,932 LAW AND ORDER. MANY PROPOSE 943 00:37:47,932 --> 00:37:48,699 THAT INCREASED FUNDING COULD 944 00:37:48,699 --> 00:37:49,934 HELP, BUT WE HAVE BEEN TRYING 945 00:37:49,934 --> 00:37:51,369 THAT FOR AS LONG AS I CAN 946 00:37:51,369 --> 00:37:53,137 REMEMBER AND IT HAS NOT WORKED. 947 00:37:53,137 --> 00:37:54,271 DESPITE WHAT SOME MAY CLAIM, 948 00:37:54,271 --> 00:37:55,339 THE POLICE ARE STILL VERY MUCH 949 00:37:55,339 --> 00:38:00,444 FUNDED AND ARE FAR FROM 950 00:38:00,444 --> 00:38:01,078 ANYTHING RESEMBLING GENUINE 951 00:38:01,078 --> 00:38:01,912 DEFUNDING. CURRENTLY THE POLICE 952 00:38:01,912 --> 00:38:03,314 BUDGET SITS AT JUST OVER ONE 953 00:38:03,314 --> 00:38:04,482 FIFTH OF THE CITY BUDGET, SO 954 00:38:04,482 --> 00:38:06,651 NOW IS THE TIME TO ASK, CAN WE 955 00:38:06,651 --> 00:38:07,485 AFFORD THIS FAILING PROGRAM? 956 00:38:07,485 --> 00:38:12,923 HAVE THEY EARNED OUR FUNDING 957 00:38:12,923 --> 00:38:13,924 AND TRUST? WITH ABYSMAL 958 00:38:13,924 --> 00:38:14,525 RESPONSE TIMES, CEASELESS 959 00:38:14,525 --> 00:38:15,226 REPORTS OF POLICE MISCONDUCT 960 00:38:15,226 --> 00:38:16,327 AND A POPULATION WITH ZERO 961 00:38:16,327 --> 00:38:23,067 FAITH IN THE PROGRAM, IT IS 962 00:38:23,067 --> 00:38:24,235 TIME WE DEMAND THAT THE POLICE 963 00:38:24,235 --> 00:38:25,269 ARE IN THEIR BUDGET AND 964 00:38:25,269 --> 00:38:26,470 PRIVILEGES, WHICH STARTS WITH 965 00:38:26,470 --> 00:38:27,371 ASKING IF THEY EVEN DESERVE THE 966 00:38:27,371 --> 00:38:33,277 IMMENSE 23% OF OUR TAX DOLLARS 967 00:38:33,277 --> 00:38:34,345 THEY ALREADY HAVE. OUR CURRENT 968 00:38:34,345 --> 00:38:35,579 POLICE FORCE IS TOO BIG A 969 00:38:35,579 --> 00:38:36,914 LUXURY FOR A CITY WITH RAMPANT 970 00:38:36,914 --> 00:38:38,249 POVERTY, AND IT IS TIME THAT WE 971 00:38:38,249 --> 00:38:39,283 DEMAND THAT THE POLICE EITHER 972 00:38:39,283 --> 00:38:40,484 USE THE MONEY AND POWER WE 973 00:38:40,484 --> 00:38:42,687 ALREADY GAVE THEM MORE 974 00:38:42,687 --> 00:38:43,754 RESPONSIBLY, OR WE GIVE OUR 975 00:38:43,754 --> 00:38:44,822 MONEY IN TRUST TO MORE 976 00:38:44,822 --> 00:38:45,389 EFFECTIVE AND COMPETENT 977 00:38:45,389 --> 00:38:46,324 PROGRAMS, ONES WHICH WE 978 00:38:46,324 --> 00:38:47,458 DESPERATELY NEED. THANK YOU. 979 00:38:47,458 --> 00:38:48,693 >> THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER 980 00:38:48,693 --> 00:38:55,333 IS CARRIE KAPLAN. 981 00:38:55,333 --> 00:38:56,567 >> HELLO. I ACTUALLY CAME HERE 982 00:38:56,567 --> 00:38:57,768 TO ADVOCATE FOR OUR HOMELESS 983 00:38:57,768 --> 00:39:02,673 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, BUT SINCE 984 00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:03,974 WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO THAT, 985 00:39:03,974 --> 00:39:05,076 THAT'S FINE. I AM A 986 00:39:05,076 --> 00:39:06,077 NEUROSCIENTIST AND I AM GOING 987 00:39:06,077 --> 00:39:07,511 TO SHARE WITH YOU WHAT I THINK 988 00:39:07,511 --> 00:39:08,746 ABOUT THE POLICE. I WOULD LOVE 989 00:39:08,746 --> 00:39:09,980 TO SUPPORT OUR POLICE FORCE. I 990 00:39:09,980 --> 00:39:11,382 WOULD LOVE TO SUPPORT EVERYONE 991 00:39:11,382 --> 00:39:13,784 IN OUR COMMUNITY. AS 992 00:39:13,784 --> 00:39:14,618 NEUROSCIENTISTS, I THINK THAT 993 00:39:14,618 --> 00:39:20,091 US ALL LEARNING AND THEM 994 00:39:20,091 --> 00:39:21,225 HELPING PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY 995 00:39:21,225 --> 00:39:21,926 TO LEARN ABOUT BREATHING 996 00:39:21,926 --> 00:39:24,261 EXERCISES TO HELP OUR BRAINS TO 997 00:39:24,261 --> 00:39:26,630 FUNCTION BETTER AND TO HAVE 998 00:39:26,630 --> 00:39:27,698 BETTER RESPONSES WOULD BE AN 999 00:39:27,698 --> 00:39:31,936 EASY, CHEAP AND EFFECTIVE WAY 1000 00:39:31,936 --> 00:39:33,003 OF EVERYONE COMING TOGETHER IN 1001 00:39:33,003 --> 00:39:33,971 OUR COMMUNITY. I REALLY LOOK 1002 00:39:33,971 --> 00:39:38,175 FORWARD TO TRYING TO PROMOTE 1003 00:39:38,175 --> 00:39:43,080 THAT AND MY DESIRE FOR PUBLIC 1004 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,482 HEALTH TO BE BETTER. FROM WHAT 1005 00:39:44,482 --> 00:39:50,187 I HAVE HEARD, PEOPLE WHO ARE 1006 00:39:50,187 --> 00:39:51,122 NOT POLICE OFFICERS ANYMORE, 1007 00:39:51,122 --> 00:39:52,256 THEY FEEL THAT EVERYBODY IN THE 1008 00:39:52,256 --> 00:39:53,391 COMMUNITY HATES THEM, AND THEY 1009 00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:57,862 STILL WANT TO SERVE OUR 1010 00:39:57,862 --> 00:39:58,963 COMMUNITY, AND IT SHOULD BE A 1011 00:39:58,963 --> 00:39:59,730 WIN-WIN SITUATION FOR EVERYBODY 1012 00:39:59,730 --> 00:40:00,965 TO BE SUPPORTED BY OUR POLICE 1013 00:40:00,965 --> 00:40:02,333 AND FEEL LIKE THEY ARE A PART 1014 00:40:02,333 --> 00:40:03,601 OF OUR COMMUNITY AND THEY ARE 1015 00:40:03,601 --> 00:40:04,969 THERE TO HELP US. IT WOULD 1016 00:40:04,969 --> 00:40:06,070 CAUSE LESS ANXIETY AND STRESS 1017 00:40:06,070 --> 00:40:07,037 AND MORE COMING TOGETHER AS 1018 00:40:07,037 --> 00:40:14,145 HUMANS, AS ONE COLLECTIVE UNIT. 1019 00:40:14,145 --> 00:40:16,447 I HOPE THAT WE CAN PUT AWAY A 1020 00:40:16,447 --> 00:40:17,148 LOT OF OUR ANTIQUATED 1021 00:40:17,148 --> 00:40:17,882 PERSPECTIVES ABOUT OTHERS BEING 1022 00:40:17,882 --> 00:40:21,685 BAD AND JUST COME TOGETHER AND 1023 00:40:21,685 --> 00:40:23,954 THAT IS WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. I 1024 00:40:23,954 --> 00:40:31,562 AM HAPPY TO ADVOCATE FOR THAT 1025 00:40:31,562 --> 00:40:32,763 AND BE A RESOURCE FOR THAT. 1026 00:40:32,763 --> 00:40:33,164 THANK YOU. 1027 00:40:33,164 --> 00:40:36,867 >> THANK YOU, AND THE POLICE 1028 00:40:36,867 --> 00:40:37,735 CONTRACT DOES COVER OFFICER 1029 00:40:37,735 --> 00:40:38,836 WELLNESS, SO YOUR COMMENTS ARE 1030 00:40:38,836 --> 00:40:39,236 WELL-RECEIVED. 1031 00:40:39,236 --> 00:40:40,404 >> I'M SORRY, WHAT DID YOU SAY? 1032 00:40:40,404 --> 00:40:40,538 1033 00:40:40,538 --> 00:40:42,706 >> THE CONTRACT DOES ADDRESS 1034 00:40:42,706 --> 00:40:45,242 WELLNESS, SO YOUR COMMENTS ARE 1035 00:40:45,242 --> 00:40:46,177 WELL-PLACED. OUR NEXT SPEAKER 1036 00:40:46,177 --> 00:40:49,013 IS PAUL COMRIE, WHO WILL BE 1037 00:40:49,013 --> 00:40:51,449 FOLLOWED BY MOLLY SOMERSET. WE 1038 00:40:51,449 --> 00:40:57,721 ARE SWITCHING TO ONLINE 1039 00:40:57,721 --> 00:41:06,764 SPEAKERS. PAUL COMRIE? YOU 1040 00:41:06,764 --> 00:41:09,567 WITH US? 1041 00:41:09,567 --> 00:41:10,801 >> OKAY, NOW I AM UNMUTED. 1042 00:41:10,801 --> 00:41:11,569 THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER 1043 00:41:11,569 --> 00:41:16,740 HERBOLD. YES. I A -- I DON'T 1044 00:41:16,740 --> 00:41:20,578 HAVE COMMENTS ON SPECIFIC 1045 00:41:20,578 --> 00:41:21,245 PROVISIONS OF THE CONTRACT AND 1046 00:41:21,245 --> 00:41:23,147 DISCUSSIONS TODAY. I MOSTLY 1047 00:41:23,147 --> 00:41:29,487 HAVE A STATEMENT ABOUT THE 1048 00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:30,120 NEGOTIATIONS THEMSELVES. MY 1049 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:31,555 NAME, AGAIN, IS PAUL COMRIE AND 1050 00:41:31,555 --> 00:41:32,823 I LIVE IN BALLARD AS WELL LIKE 1051 00:41:32,823 --> 00:41:33,858 THE FIRST PUBLIC COMMENT ARE 1052 00:41:33,858 --> 00:41:39,630 TODAY. I DO NOT SUPPORT SPD. I 1053 00:41:39,630 --> 00:41:40,865 UNDERSTAND THAT THE POLICE WERE 1054 00:41:40,865 --> 00:41:41,665 NEVER DEFUNDED AND I WANT TO 1055 00:41:41,665 --> 00:41:42,566 SEE FEWER POLICE OFFICERS 1056 00:41:42,566 --> 00:41:43,434 STOCKING THE NEIGHBORHOOD. I 1057 00:41:43,434 --> 00:41:46,904 WANT YOU TO REMEMBER THAT YOUR 1058 00:41:46,904 --> 00:41:47,638 REPRESENTATIVES FIRST AND 1059 00:41:47,638 --> 00:41:48,772 FOREMOST. CITY COUNCIL DOES NOT 1060 00:41:48,772 --> 00:41:51,275 REPRESENT SPMA AND THIS SHOULD 1061 00:41:51,275 --> 00:41:54,512 NOT BE A FAST TRACK OR 1062 00:41:54,512 --> 00:41:56,180 RUBBERSTAMP. THE POLICE DO FEEL 1063 00:41:56,180 --> 00:42:00,651 LIKE A THREAT TO MANY 1064 00:42:00,651 --> 00:42:01,619 SEATTLEITES AND WE WANT LESS 1065 00:42:01,619 --> 00:42:02,553 MONEY IN THEIR HANDS, MEANING 1066 00:42:02,553 --> 00:42:07,791 FEWER POLICE OFFICERS. WE 1067 00:42:07,791 --> 00:42:08,726 UNDERSTAND THE POLICE TO BE AN 1068 00:42:08,726 --> 00:42:09,627 OCCUPYING FORCE THAT DEFENDS 1069 00:42:09,627 --> 00:42:11,495 CAPITAL FIRST AND FOREMOST AND 1070 00:42:11,495 --> 00:42:12,396 THEY OFTEN SEE THEMSELVES 1071 00:42:12,396 --> 00:42:15,532 LIVING OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS. 1072 00:42:15,532 --> 00:42:16,567 THEY VERY RARELY APPROACH 1073 00:42:16,567 --> 00:42:22,006 ANYTHING THAT RESEMBLES CRIME 1074 00:42:22,006 --> 00:42:23,007 PREVENTION. WE MUST REMEMBER 1075 00:42:23,007 --> 00:42:24,742 THAT THE LEADERSHIP OF SPD, THE 1076 00:42:24,742 --> 00:42:25,643 KIND OF PEOPLE WHO YOU WILL NOT 1077 00:42:25,643 --> 00:42:27,778 BE NEGOTIATING WITH ELEVATED 1078 00:42:27,778 --> 00:42:33,217 PEOPLE LIKE FORMER POLICE CHIEF 1079 00:42:33,217 --> 00:42:34,585 CARMEN BEST. WE SAW THAT THE 1080 00:42:34,585 --> 00:42:35,953 REPRESENTATION OF SPD ON 1081 00:42:35,953 --> 00:42:41,225 JANUARY 6th DOES NOT REPRESENT 1082 00:42:41,225 --> 00:42:42,426 THE CULTURE OF OUR CITY AND 1083 00:42:42,426 --> 00:42:43,727 MOST OBVIOUSLY WE KNOW THAT IT 1084 00:42:43,727 --> 00:42:44,862 IS STILL UNDER THE CONSENT 1085 00:42:44,862 --> 00:42:46,263 DECREE FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. IN 1086 00:42:46,263 --> 00:42:47,131 SHORT, MANY PEOPLE IN SEATTLE 1087 00:42:47,131 --> 00:42:49,900 UNDERSTAND THAT THE CULTURE 1088 00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:50,868 CONTINUES TO BE ROTTEN, BUT 1089 00:42:50,868 --> 00:42:56,807 OBVIOUSLY FOR THE PURPOSES OF 1090 00:42:56,807 --> 00:42:58,142 CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS , YOU 1091 00:42:58,142 --> 00:42:59,310 CANNOT ASSUME THE WORST OF THE 1092 00:42:59,310 --> 00:43:00,311 EMPLOYEES YOU WILL BE 1093 00:43:00,311 --> 00:43:01,011 NEGOTIATING WITH, AND I 1094 00:43:01,011 --> 00:43:01,879 UNDERSTAND YOU ARE LEGALLY 1095 00:43:01,879 --> 00:43:02,846 REQUIRED TO NEGOTIATE IN GOOD 1096 00:43:02,846 --> 00:43:06,583 FAITH, SO IN SHORT I ASK YOU TO 1097 00:43:06,583 --> 00:43:07,484 REMEMBER TO NEGOTIATE SHREWDLY 1098 00:43:07,484 --> 00:43:08,385 ON BEHALF OF CITIZENS LIKE 1099 00:43:08,385 --> 00:43:09,586 MYSELF. THANK YOU FOR THE TIME. 1100 00:43:09,586 --> 00:43:09,720 1101 00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:10,721 >> THANK YOU, AND OUR NEXT 1102 00:43:10,721 --> 00:43:11,588 SPEAKER IS MOLLY SOMERSET. 1103 00:43:11,588 --> 00:43:19,396 MOLLY WILL BE FOLLOWED BY BETH. 1104 00:43:19,396 --> 00:43:23,133 MOLLY, IF YOU COULD HIT STAR 1105 00:43:23,133 --> 00:43:30,908 SIX, SO WE COULD HEAR YOU? 1106 00:43:30,908 --> 00:43:33,143 AGAIN, MOLLY -- THERE YOU GO. 1107 00:43:33,143 --> 00:43:33,444 PERFECT! 1108 00:43:33,444 --> 00:43:40,351 >> THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, 1109 00:43:40,351 --> 00:43:43,621 PUBLIC SERVICES AND HEALTH AND 1110 00:43:43,621 --> 00:43:47,024 SAFETY COMMITTEE. I CALL ON YOU 1111 00:43:47,024 --> 00:43:52,663 TO NOT RENEW THE SPMA CONTRACT 1112 00:43:52,663 --> 00:43:54,031 . AS THE COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE 1113 00:43:54,031 --> 00:43:54,865 FOR PUBLIC SAFETY I LOOK 1114 00:43:54,865 --> 00:43:57,434 FORWARD TO TAKING STEPS AWAY 1115 00:43:57,434 --> 00:43:58,402 FROM AN INSTITUTION THAT HAS 1116 00:43:58,402 --> 00:44:01,005 ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT MAINTAINING 1117 00:44:01,005 --> 00:44:01,872 WHITE SUPREMACY AND SUPPRESSING 1118 00:44:01,872 --> 00:44:04,875 THE WORKING CLASS AND POOR. 1119 00:44:04,875 --> 00:44:06,877 POLICING IN THE U.S. HAS 1120 00:44:06,877 --> 00:44:16,920 ORIGINS IN SLAVE PATROLS, AND 1121 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:17,988 THERE ARE STORIES ABOUT THE SPD 1122 00:44:17,988 --> 00:44:18,822 KILLING TWO STRIKING MARITIME 1123 00:44:18,822 --> 00:44:25,896 WORKERS IN 1904. THEY ALSO 1124 00:44:25,896 --> 00:44:27,097 WENT UNDER A CONSENT DECREE DUE 1125 00:44:27,097 --> 00:44:32,569 TO BIAS POLICING AND EXCESSIVE 1126 00:44:32,569 --> 00:44:33,937 FORCE. IT WAS FOUND THAT SPD 1127 00:44:33,937 --> 00:44:34,638 CONTINUES TO EXHIBIT BIAS 1128 00:44:34,638 --> 00:44:40,144 POLICING COMPARED WITH WHITE 1129 00:44:40,144 --> 00:44:42,279 PEOPLE. THEY STOP PEOPLE NINE 1130 00:44:42,279 --> 00:44:43,380 TIMES MORE FREQUENTLY IN BLACK 1131 00:44:43,380 --> 00:44:44,081 PEOPLE FIVE TIMES MORE 1132 00:44:44,081 --> 00:44:49,386 FREQUENTLY. ADDITIONALLY, 1133 00:44:49,386 --> 00:44:50,788 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, PACIFIC 1134 00:44:50,788 --> 00:44:52,022 ISLANDERS AND BLACK PEOPLE ARE 1135 00:44:52,022 --> 00:44:52,956 SUBJECT TO MORE FORCE THAN 1136 00:44:52,956 --> 00:44:53,924 WHITE PEOPLE. WITHIN SPD THERE 1137 00:44:53,924 --> 00:44:54,925 IS EVIDENCE OF BIAS AND 1138 00:44:54,925 --> 00:44:56,060 DISCRIMINATION AS NOTED BY THE 1139 00:44:56,060 --> 00:45:03,267 $10 MILLION LAWSUIT. CONTRACTS 1140 00:45:03,267 --> 00:45:03,967 PROTECTED PEOPLE LIKE 1141 00:45:03,967 --> 00:45:09,273 LIEUTENANT HIGGINS, WHO KILLED 1142 00:45:09,273 --> 00:45:10,040 TWO SEATTLEITES IN CRISIS AND 1143 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:10,741 PEOPLE LIKE LIEUTENANT HIGGINS 1144 00:45:10,741 --> 00:45:12,309 WHO DROVE ONTO A SIDEWALK AND 1145 00:45:12,309 --> 00:45:13,010 CALLED PROTESTERS COCKROACHES. 1146 00:45:13,010 --> 00:45:20,584 WE MUST END QUALIFIED IMMUNITY 1147 00:45:20,584 --> 00:45:21,952 , AND WE MUST NOT NEGOTIATE 1148 00:45:21,952 --> 00:45:22,886 WITH THOSE WHO UPHOLD CONTEMPT 1149 00:45:22,886 --> 00:45:24,088 FOR THE PEOPLE. DO NOT RENEW 1150 00:45:24,088 --> 00:45:25,022 THE CONTRACT. THANK YOU. 1151 00:45:25,022 --> 00:45:35,566 >> OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS BETH. 1152 00:45:37,601 --> 00:45:40,771 >> HELLO. MY NAME IS BETH AND 1153 00:45:40,771 --> 00:45:42,272 I WANT TO ADVOCATE FOR A GOOD 1154 00:45:42,272 --> 00:45:43,173 CONTRACT FOR THE SEATTLE POLICE 1155 00:45:43,173 --> 00:45:46,176 DEPARTMENT. SEATTLE POLICE 1156 00:45:46,176 --> 00:45:47,277 DEPARTMENT ARE CITY EMPLOYEES 1157 00:45:47,277 --> 00:45:48,612 THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING WITHOUT 1158 00:45:48,612 --> 00:45:51,014 A CONTRACT FOR MORE THAN TWO 1159 00:45:51,014 --> 00:45:51,949 YEARS. THEY HAVE BEEN 1160 00:45:51,949 --> 00:45:52,783 MISTREATED BY THE CITY COUNCIL 1161 00:45:52,783 --> 00:45:56,787 AND THE CITY AND HAVE BEEN THE 1162 00:45:56,787 --> 00:45:57,688 SUBJECT-THE VICTIMS OF HUNDREDS 1163 00:45:57,688 --> 00:46:01,291 OF ASSAULTS. EVEN THE MIDDLE OF 1164 00:46:01,291 --> 00:46:02,025 THOSE ASSAULTS, THE CITY 1165 00:46:02,025 --> 00:46:04,461 COUNCIL WAS SUPPORTING THE 1166 00:46:04,461 --> 00:46:10,000 PEOPLE WHO WERE ASSAULTING CITY 1167 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,836 EMPLOYEES. THE DATA SAYS THAT 1168 00:46:12,836 --> 00:46:14,304 THERE IS MUCH LESS STAFFING ON 1169 00:46:14,304 --> 00:46:14,972 THE SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT 1170 00:46:14,972 --> 00:46:16,373 THAN NEEDED. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT 1171 00:46:16,373 --> 00:46:17,875 THE PERCENTAGE IS. IT IS 1172 00:46:17,875 --> 00:46:25,816 INCREDIBLE, BECAUSE THEY WERE 1173 00:46:25,816 --> 00:46:26,850 LOW-STAFFED THREE YEARS AGO, 1174 00:46:26,850 --> 00:46:27,718 AND THE NEW CITY COUNCIL 1175 00:46:27,718 --> 00:46:30,287 MEMBERS ARE PROMISING TO GET 1176 00:46:30,287 --> 00:46:38,629 MORE STAFF, MORE POLICE 1177 00:46:38,629 --> 00:46:39,696 OFFICERS, AND SINCE THEN THEY 1178 00:46:39,696 --> 00:46:40,898 HAVE LOST MORE THAN 600 STAFF, 1179 00:46:40,898 --> 00:46:42,099 ALMOST ONE THIRD OF THE 1180 00:46:42,099 --> 00:46:43,033 STAFFING. IT WAS BECOMING A 1181 00:46:43,033 --> 00:46:44,334 MORE DIVERSE POLICE FORCE, 1182 00:46:44,334 --> 00:46:45,369 EXCEPT WHEN THE CITY COUNCIL 1183 00:46:45,369 --> 00:46:46,069 SUPER MAJORITY THREATENED TO 1184 00:46:46,069 --> 00:46:52,276 DEFUND THEM BY 50%. MANY OF 1185 00:46:52,276 --> 00:46:55,679 THOSE NEW AND MORE DIVERSE 1186 00:46:55,679 --> 00:46:56,647 OFFICERS COULD SEE THE WRITING 1187 00:46:56,647 --> 00:46:58,015 ON THE WALL AND THAT THEY 1188 00:46:58,015 --> 00:46:59,383 NEEDED TO GET A NEW JOB BEFORE 1189 00:46:59,383 --> 00:47:00,751 THEY GOT FIRED, SO THEY DID. 1190 00:47:00,751 --> 00:47:01,618 THEY WENT TO APPRECIATIVE 1191 00:47:01,618 --> 00:47:02,586 CITIES ACROSS THE STATE AND 1192 00:47:02,586 --> 00:47:03,587 ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THE CITY 1193 00:47:03,587 --> 00:47:06,423 COUNCIL HAS MISTREATED THE CITY 1194 00:47:06,423 --> 00:47:10,160 EMPLOYEES FOR FAR TOO LONG. THE 1195 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,697 HOMICIDE RATES AND THE VIOLENCE 1196 00:47:13,697 --> 00:47:14,865 RATES, THE MOST VULNERABLE IN 1197 00:47:14,865 --> 00:47:16,200 OUR CITY ARE BEING KILLED. THEY 1198 00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:22,806 ARE BEING ASSAULTED BECAUSE 1199 00:47:22,806 --> 00:47:24,107 THERE IS NOT A POLICE FORCE 1200 00:47:24,107 --> 00:47:25,309 THAT IS NEEDED. THEY JUST DO 1201 00:47:25,309 --> 00:47:26,577 NOT HAVE THE STAFF OR THE 1202 00:47:26,577 --> 00:47:27,945 ABILITY. POLICE ARE BEING ASKED 1203 00:47:27,945 --> 00:47:28,879 TO DO INCREDIBLE OVERTIME, 1204 00:47:28,879 --> 00:47:31,949 WHICH IS JUST NOT FAIR. IT 1205 00:47:31,949 --> 00:47:34,685 MAKES THEM NOT -- YOU CANNOT 1206 00:47:34,685 --> 00:47:39,056 KEEP DOING OVERTIME AND KEEP 1207 00:47:39,056 --> 00:47:40,524 DOING THE JOB. THAT IS JUST -- 1208 00:47:40,524 --> 00:47:43,327 YOU CANNOT KEEP DOING -- NO 1209 00:47:43,327 --> 00:47:44,194 STAFF MEMBER, NO CITY EMPLOYEE 1210 00:47:44,194 --> 00:47:45,963 SHOULD BE ASKED TO DO THAT. 1211 00:47:45,963 --> 00:47:46,396 THANK YOU. 1212 00:47:46,396 --> 00:47:50,867 >> THANK YOU. MOVING BACK TO 1213 00:47:50,867 --> 00:47:51,735 OUR IN PERSON PUBLIC 1214 00:47:51,735 --> 00:47:54,371 COMMENTERS, WE HAVE ROXIE 1215 00:47:54,371 --> 00:48:04,848 FOLLOWED BY BRAD SPIEGEL. 1216 00:48:10,721 --> 00:48:15,959 >> HELLO. CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME 1217 00:48:15,959 --> 00:48:16,193 WELL? 1218 00:48:16,193 --> 00:48:17,594 >> JUST SPEAK RIGHT UP INTO IT. 1219 00:48:17,594 --> 00:48:17,728 1220 00:48:17,728 --> 00:48:23,333 >> ALL RIGHT. I AM ONE OF THOSE 1221 00:48:23,333 --> 00:48:24,334 PROTESTERS WHO WAS PREVIOUSLY 1222 00:48:24,334 --> 00:48:25,335 INJURED BY POLICE A COUPLE 1223 00:48:25,335 --> 00:48:27,104 YEARS AGO IN THE UPRISING. I 1224 00:48:27,104 --> 00:48:28,505 ALSO HAD SHORT NOTICE AND I 1225 00:48:28,505 --> 00:48:32,476 DON'T HAVE ANYTHING PREPARED. 1226 00:48:32,476 --> 00:48:33,710 PUBLIC SPEAKING IS A LITTLE BIT 1227 00:48:33,710 --> 00:48:37,014 DIFFICULT FOR ME GIVEN ALL 1228 00:48:37,014 --> 00:48:38,048 THESE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED 1229 00:48:38,048 --> 00:48:45,989 TO ME SURROUNDING THESE EVENTS. 1230 00:48:45,989 --> 00:48:52,629 WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND 1231 00:48:52,629 --> 00:48:54,498 EVERYONE HERE OF IS THAT 1232 00:48:54,498 --> 00:48:55,432 EVENTUALLY WE WILL MAKE ALL 1233 00:48:55,432 --> 00:48:56,133 THESE INSTITUTIONS IRRELEVANT. 1234 00:48:56,133 --> 00:49:00,871 WHAT WE DO HERE TODAY IS ONLY 1235 00:49:00,871 --> 00:49:01,538 APPLICABLE IN THE SHORT-TERM. 1236 00:49:01,538 --> 00:49:02,739 THIS CONTRACT, IF IT IS 1237 00:49:02,739 --> 00:49:05,809 RENEWED, WHICH IT PROBABLY WILL 1238 00:49:05,809 --> 00:49:07,110 BE, WILL ONE DAY NOT MATTER 1239 00:49:07,110 --> 00:49:09,780 ANYMORE. WE WILL MAKE BETTER 1240 00:49:09,780 --> 00:49:10,914 SYSTEMS. WE WILL MAKE BETTER 1241 00:49:10,914 --> 00:49:16,119 ALTERNATIVES. WE NEED TO HOUSE, 1242 00:49:16,119 --> 00:49:16,987 FEED, EDUCATE EVERYONE. THAT'S 1243 00:49:16,987 --> 00:49:21,358 IT. THAT'S ALL WE NEED TO DO. 1244 00:49:21,358 --> 00:49:25,095 POLICE ACTIVELY EXCLUDE PEOPLE 1245 00:49:25,095 --> 00:49:25,963 FROM RETAINING THE RESOURCES 1246 00:49:25,963 --> 00:49:29,599 THAT THEY NEED TO MAINTAIN A 1247 00:49:29,599 --> 00:49:30,500 MEANINGFUL AND FULFILLED LIFE. 1248 00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:35,172 WE SEE POLICE ACTIVELY POINTING 1249 00:49:35,172 --> 00:49:38,909 GUNS AT PEOPLE, TRYING TO GET 1250 00:49:38,909 --> 00:49:42,312 FOOD FROM DUMPSTERS IN PARTS OF 1251 00:49:42,312 --> 00:49:46,650 THIS COUNTRY. WE SEE POLICE 1252 00:49:46,650 --> 00:49:47,317 THROWING AWAY PEOPLE'S 1253 00:49:47,317 --> 00:49:49,553 BELONGINGS WHEN THEY ARE LIVING 1254 00:49:49,553 --> 00:49:50,787 ON THE STREET AND THAT'S ALL 1255 00:49:50,787 --> 00:49:56,426 THEY HAVE. EVERYDAY SWEEPS ARE 1256 00:49:56,426 --> 00:49:59,730 HAPPENING AND THESE PEOPLE ARE 1257 00:49:59,730 --> 00:50:00,464 BEING DISPLACED. THEIR LIVES 1258 00:50:00,464 --> 00:50:01,798 ARE BEING DISRUPTED. IT IS NOW 1259 00:50:01,798 --> 00:50:03,166 TIME FOR US AS A COLLECTIVE TO 1260 00:50:03,166 --> 00:50:04,101 DISRUPT THESE SYSTEMS. THANK 1261 00:50:04,101 --> 00:50:04,334 YOU. 1262 00:50:04,334 --> 00:50:07,404 >> THANK YOU. OUR NEXT SPEAKER 1263 00:50:07,404 --> 00:50:13,143 IS BRAD SPIEGEL, FOLLOWED BY 1264 00:50:13,143 --> 00:50:15,812 STONE LAVAN. 1265 00:50:15,812 --> 00:50:17,080 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, OR I SHOULD 1266 00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:18,315 SAYGOOD EVENING NOW. THANK YOU 1267 00:50:18,315 --> 00:50:20,250 FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK 1268 00:50:20,250 --> 00:50:21,385 HERE. LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I JUST 1269 00:50:21,385 --> 00:50:24,454 FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS JUST A FEW 1270 00:50:24,454 --> 00:50:25,555 HOURS AGO, ABOUT THIS MEETING. 1271 00:50:25,555 --> 00:50:27,624 SEATTLE HAS BEEN HOME FOR 1272 00:50:27,624 --> 00:50:32,162 MYSELF AND MY FAMILY FOR NEARLY 1273 00:50:32,162 --> 00:50:33,597 25 YEARS. WE HAVE SEEN THE GOOD 1274 00:50:33,597 --> 00:50:37,067 AND THE BAD, AND NOW WE ARE 1275 00:50:37,067 --> 00:50:40,303 SEEING THE UGLY. WE HAVE SEEN 1276 00:50:40,303 --> 00:50:42,606 THINGS THAT WORK AND WE HAVE 1277 00:50:42,606 --> 00:50:45,675 SEEN THINGS THAT HAVE NOT 1278 00:50:45,675 --> 00:50:46,443 WORKED. WE HAVE HAD CITY 1279 00:50:46,443 --> 00:50:48,678 COUNCILS THAT HAVE COME AND 1280 00:50:48,678 --> 00:50:52,649 GONE THAT BOTH SUPPORTED OUR 1281 00:50:52,649 --> 00:50:53,583 POLICE, FIRE, CITY EMPLOYEES, 1282 00:50:53,583 --> 00:50:57,554 AND WE HAVE UNFORTUNATELY HAD 1283 00:50:57,554 --> 00:50:58,288 COUNCILS WHO HAVE NOT. THE 1284 00:50:58,288 --> 00:51:00,624 IMPORTANT TAKE AWAY FROM THIS 1285 00:51:00,624 --> 00:51:05,162 IS THAT AS MUCH AS SOME PEOPLE 1286 00:51:05,162 --> 00:51:06,263 MIGHT NOT LIKE THE POLICE FOR 1287 00:51:06,263 --> 00:51:10,901 WHATEVER THE REASON, THEY ARE 1288 00:51:10,901 --> 00:51:12,035 AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR 1289 00:51:12,035 --> 00:51:13,203 COMMUNITY. WE ARE SEEING WHAT 1290 00:51:13,203 --> 00:51:15,906 HAPPENS WHEN WE DON'T HAVE 1291 00:51:15,906 --> 00:51:18,875 EFFECTIVE POLICING AND ENOUGH 1292 00:51:18,875 --> 00:51:21,111 POLICE OFFICERS. WE START 1293 00:51:21,111 --> 00:51:23,647 SEEING BURNOUT, HUGE AMOUNTS 1294 00:51:23,647 --> 00:51:24,548 OVERTIME. WE STARTED SEEING 1295 00:51:24,548 --> 00:51:29,052 THIS DURING THE HUGE CROWDS 1296 00:51:29,052 --> 00:51:32,622 THAT CAME TO SEATTLE VISITING 1297 00:51:32,622 --> 00:51:35,826 OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS, AND 1298 00:51:35,826 --> 00:51:39,663 HOW MANY OFFICERS JUST SAID, 1299 00:51:39,663 --> 00:51:40,997 LISTEN, I LOVE MY JOB BUT I 1300 00:51:40,997 --> 00:51:42,232 CANNOT WORK 80+ HOURS A WEEK. 1301 00:51:42,232 --> 00:51:46,136 THAT BEING SAID, THERE HAS TO 1302 00:51:46,136 --> 00:51:51,074 BE GIVE-AND-TAKE WITHIN A 1303 00:51:51,074 --> 00:51:52,209 CONTRACT. I, MYSELF, AND MANY 1304 00:51:52,209 --> 00:51:57,314 PEOPLE, WE ALL AGREE THAT 1305 00:51:57,314 --> 00:51:58,281 CERTAIN THINGS SUCH AS HAVING 1306 00:51:58,281 --> 00:51:59,583 ALL OF OUR POLICE LIVE WITHIN 1307 00:51:59,583 --> 00:52:02,552 THE CITY LIMITS, WHICH USED TO 1308 00:52:02,552 --> 00:52:03,787 BE A THING THAT WE WOULD SEE 1309 00:52:03,787 --> 00:52:04,955 ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, AN 1310 00:52:04,955 --> 00:52:11,828 OFFICER WHO LIVES IN THE 1311 00:52:11,828 --> 00:52:12,762 COMMUNITY WILL PROTECT THE 1312 00:52:12,762 --> 00:52:13,730 COMMUNITY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 1313 00:52:13,730 --> 00:52:13,864 1314 00:52:13,864 --> 00:52:19,569 >> OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS STONE 1315 00:52:19,569 --> 00:52:23,473 LAVAN. 1316 00:52:23,473 --> 00:52:30,313 >> OKAY. SO FIRST I WOULD LIKE 1317 00:52:30,313 --> 00:52:32,516 TO TALK ABOUT THE EXPENSIVE 1318 00:52:32,516 --> 00:52:34,351 GROCERY PRICES. AS A 1319 00:52:34,351 --> 00:52:36,219 27-YEAR-OLD MAN I AM LIVING OFF 1320 00:52:36,219 --> 00:52:43,793 EBT CASH AND FOOD STAMPS. THEY 1321 00:52:43,793 --> 00:52:45,195 JUST RANDOMLY CUT OFF MY CASH 1322 00:52:45,195 --> 00:52:46,630 WHICH I HAD BEEN LIVING ON FOR 1323 00:52:46,630 --> 00:52:47,531 A WHILE. THESE PRICES, GROCERY 1324 00:52:47,531 --> 00:52:48,765 PRICES ARE NUTS. I HAVE NEVER 1325 00:52:48,765 --> 00:52:50,133 MADE MORE THAN $50,000 IN THE 1326 00:52:50,133 --> 00:52:51,601 CITY WORKING HERE. I USED TO BE 1327 00:52:51,601 --> 00:53:02,145 HOMELESS AND NOW I WORK MY ASS 1328 00:53:03,246 --> 00:53:05,115 OFF AND ALMOST DIED FOR IT. I 1329 00:53:05,115 --> 00:53:06,316 LIVE IN A LOW INCOME HOUSING 1330 00:53:06,316 --> 00:53:07,551 UNIT WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO HELP 1331 00:53:07,551 --> 00:53:08,685 PEOPLE GET OUT OF HOMELESSNESS, 1332 00:53:08,685 --> 00:53:09,986 AND THEY STILL EVICT YOU AND IT 1333 00:53:09,986 --> 00:53:11,288 IS FRONTED BY THE TAXES THAT 1334 00:53:11,288 --> 00:53:15,759 PAYS YOU GUYS' PAYCHECKS. 1335 00:53:15,759 --> 00:53:16,693 HONESTLY, IT IS DISGRACEFUL TO 1336 00:53:16,693 --> 00:53:18,495 TRY TO EVICT ME IN A LOW INCOME 1337 00:53:18,495 --> 00:53:19,663 HOUSING UNIT THAT IS FUNDED BY 1338 00:53:19,663 --> 00:53:20,697 THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TAXES. 1339 00:53:20,697 --> 00:53:21,831 IT IS PRETTY UNBELIEVABLE. 1340 00:53:21,831 --> 00:53:24,935 LIKE THAT IS NUTS. YOU CANNOT 1341 00:53:24,935 --> 00:53:26,036 DO THAT. PEOPLE ARE REALLY 1342 00:53:26,036 --> 00:53:27,304 SCARED TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN 1343 00:53:27,304 --> 00:53:34,711 THEY NEED IT. IF YOU CALL THE 1344 00:53:34,711 --> 00:53:35,612 POLICE THEY WILL JUST START 1345 00:53:35,612 --> 00:53:36,880 SAYING YOU ARE NUTS AND THEY 1346 00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:38,348 WILL LOCK YOU UP IN A MENTAL 1347 00:53:38,348 --> 00:53:39,282 HOSPITAL. ONE OF THE THINGS 1348 00:53:39,282 --> 00:53:41,551 THAT MAKES ME SO MAD ABOUT THE 1349 00:53:41,551 --> 00:53:42,586 -- ABOUT THIS GOVERNMENT IS 1350 00:53:42,586 --> 00:53:44,054 THAT I HAVE BEEN SENT TO MENTAL 1351 00:53:44,054 --> 00:53:44,888 HOSPITALS, WHICH ARE REALLY 1352 00:53:44,888 --> 00:53:45,889 INSANE ASYLUM'S LIKE FIVE TIMES 1353 00:53:45,889 --> 00:53:50,594 FOR ABSOLUTE BOWL. LIKE 1354 00:53:50,594 --> 00:53:51,728 HONESTLY, I DON'T WANT TO BE 1355 00:53:51,728 --> 00:53:53,129 ARRESTED AND PUT ME IN SOME 1356 00:53:53,129 --> 00:53:54,264 LOONY BIN WHEN I DIDN'T HURT 1357 00:53:54,264 --> 00:53:55,432 ANYBODY, I DIDN'T SHOOT ANYBODY 1358 00:53:55,432 --> 00:53:56,366 OR STAB ANYBODY OR VIOLENTLY 1359 00:53:56,366 --> 00:53:57,500 ASSAULT ANYBODY. YOU GUYS HAVE 1360 00:53:57,500 --> 00:54:02,672 TO STOP THE POLICE FROM LOCKING 1361 00:54:02,672 --> 00:54:03,907 PEOPLE UP WITH THAT CRAZY WHITE 1362 00:54:03,907 --> 00:54:05,408 LADY IN THE VAST WHO BRINGS YOU 1363 00:54:05,408 --> 00:54:06,543 OUT OF JAIL AND TRANSFERS YOU 1364 00:54:06,543 --> 00:54:07,644 TO A INSANE ASYLUM. THOSE 1365 00:54:07,644 --> 00:54:15,385 PLACES ARE LIKE HELL . I NEVER 1366 00:54:15,385 --> 00:54:16,553 WANT TO GO BACK THERE AGAIN. 1367 00:54:16,553 --> 00:54:17,721 YOU GUYS HAVE TO DO SOMETHING 1368 00:54:17,721 --> 00:54:18,722 ABOUT THIS MENTAL HOSPITAL 1369 00:54:18,722 --> 00:54:19,589 LOCKUP CRAP. EVERYTHING IS TOO 1370 00:54:19,589 --> 00:54:22,626 EXPENSIVE. ALL RIGHT. HONESTLY, 1371 00:54:22,626 --> 00:54:25,795 THE POLICE, LIKE, THEY HAVE TO 1372 00:54:25,795 --> 00:54:33,536 BE PUT IN CHECK. THAT IS SOME 1373 00:54:33,536 --> 00:54:34,671 HIGHER UP RANK DISCRIMINATION 1374 00:54:34,671 --> 00:54:36,072 THEY GOT GOING ON. ALL RIGHT. 1375 00:54:36,072 --> 00:54:39,976 >> THANK YOU. THAT IS OUR LAST 1376 00:54:39,976 --> 00:54:45,315 IN PERSON PUBLIC SPEAKER. WE 1377 00:54:45,315 --> 00:54:46,583 HAD A COUPLE PEOPLE WHO WERE 1378 00:54:46,583 --> 00:54:47,751 SIGNED IN VIRTUALLY WHO ARE 1379 00:54:47,751 --> 00:54:48,852 STILL SHOWING AS NOT PRESENT. 1380 00:54:48,852 --> 00:54:53,890 THEY HAVE NOT SEEN ANY CHANGE 1381 00:54:53,890 --> 00:54:59,629 IN THEIR STATUS AS NOT PRESENT. 1382 00:54:59,629 --> 00:55:01,197 SO THAT IS NOTED ON THE MEETING 1383 00:55:01,197 --> 00:55:02,932 AGENDA. PEOPLE CAN ALSO SEND 1384 00:55:02,932 --> 00:55:04,100 WRITTEN COMMENTS ON THE SUBJECT 1385 00:55:04,100 --> 00:55:06,936 OF THIS HEARING. OH, YOU DON'T 1386 00:55:06,936 --> 00:55:12,008 HAVE TO SIGN UP. REVEREND 1387 00:55:12,008 --> 00:55:13,109 WALDEN, YOU ARE OUR LAST 1388 00:55:13,109 --> 00:55:14,344 SPEAKER. WE WILL MAKE NOTE OF 1389 00:55:14,344 --> 00:55:14,544 IT. 1390 00:55:14,544 --> 00:55:21,318 >> GOOD AFTERNOON , AND THANK 1391 00:55:21,318 --> 00:55:22,519 YOU. I AM SPEAKING FROM THE 1392 00:55:22,519 --> 00:55:23,320 OFFICE OF POLICE ACCOUNT 1393 00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:24,487 ABILITY. WE HAVE BEEN DOING 1394 00:55:24,487 --> 00:55:25,889 THIS WORK FOR A LONG TIME. WE 1395 00:55:25,889 --> 00:55:27,524 HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK. I WANT 1396 00:55:27,524 --> 00:55:31,961 TO SPEAK TO THE FACT THAT AS 1397 00:55:31,961 --> 00:55:33,430 MUCH OF THE CONTRACT AS I CAN, 1398 00:55:33,430 --> 00:55:34,698 BUT ABOUT THE FACT THAT NOBODY 1399 00:55:34,698 --> 00:55:35,632 IS SPEAKING FOR THE BLACK 1400 00:55:35,632 --> 00:55:36,733 COMMUNITY. I KNOW THAT THERE 1401 00:55:36,733 --> 00:55:43,440 ARE A LOT OF ISSUES GOING ON. 1402 00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:44,941 THERE IS A LOT OF VIOLENCE THAT 1403 00:55:44,941 --> 00:55:46,109 IS HAPPENING AND NOT ENOUGH 1404 00:55:46,109 --> 00:55:48,578 DETECTIVES -- NOBODY IS GETTING 1405 00:55:48,578 --> 00:55:49,879 BACK TO THE MOTHERS WERE CRYING 1406 00:55:49,879 --> 00:55:50,680 BECAUSE THEIR CHILDREN HAVE 1407 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:55,518 BEEN KILLED. SO THERE HAS TO BE 1408 00:55:55,518 --> 00:55:56,619 A BALANCE. THIS YOUNG LADY 1409 00:55:56,619 --> 00:55:59,723 TALKED ABOUT THE WELLNESS AND 1410 00:55:59,723 --> 00:56:01,057 STUFF, BUT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO 1411 00:56:01,057 --> 00:56:02,192 WANT TO SEE A COMMUNITY WITHOUT 1412 00:56:02,192 --> 00:56:05,095 POLICING DON'T HEAR BULLETS 1413 00:56:05,095 --> 00:56:06,129 EVERY NIGHT. THEY DON'T HEAR 1414 00:56:06,129 --> 00:56:11,234 SHOTS EVERY NIGHT. THEY DON'T 1415 00:56:11,234 --> 00:56:12,702 HEAR WHAT THE KIDS ARE GOING 1416 00:56:12,702 --> 00:56:13,570 THROUGH AND THE TRAUMA THAT 1417 00:56:13,570 --> 00:56:14,804 BLACK KIDS ARE LIVING IN RIGHT 1418 00:56:14,804 --> 00:56:16,005 NOW IN SEATTLE AND ACROSS THE 1419 00:56:16,005 --> 00:56:17,140 COUNTRY, BECAUSE OF THE 1420 00:56:17,140 --> 00:56:22,479 ESCALATING VIOLENCE IN OUR 1421 00:56:22,479 --> 00:56:24,047 COMMUNITY. A LARGE PART OF THE 1422 00:56:24,047 --> 00:56:24,981 BLACK COMMUNITY REALLY DO CARE 1423 00:56:24,981 --> 00:56:29,085 ABOUT THE POLICE. A LOT OF 1424 00:56:29,085 --> 00:56:30,387 PEOPLE WERE JUST SO HAPPY TO 1425 00:56:30,387 --> 00:56:31,521 SEE THE POLICE CHIEF THERE IN 1426 00:56:31,521 --> 00:56:38,027 THE PARADE. SO YOU HEAR 1427 00:56:38,027 --> 00:56:39,062 ANOTHER STORE BUT YOU DON'T 1428 00:56:39,062 --> 00:56:40,663 HEAR OUR STORY. SO WE HAVE HAD 1429 00:56:40,663 --> 00:56:41,898 THIS -- WE HAVE HAD THIS LONG 1430 00:56:41,898 --> 00:56:45,502 HISTORY WITH POLICING EVER 1431 00:56:45,502 --> 00:56:46,236 SINCE SLAVE CATCHERS. NOBODY 1432 00:56:46,236 --> 00:56:47,170 ELSE HAS THAT HISTORY. SO 1433 00:56:47,170 --> 00:56:48,304 PEOPLE CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT 1434 00:56:48,304 --> 00:56:49,706 HAPPENED TO US, BUT THEY DO NOT 1435 00:56:49,706 --> 00:56:50,707 LIVE WITH US AND UNDERSTAND 1436 00:56:50,707 --> 00:56:51,908 WHAT WE NEED. SOMETIMES PEOPLE 1437 00:56:51,908 --> 00:56:52,942 WHO HAVE LIVED IN THIS 1438 00:56:52,942 --> 00:56:56,112 COMMUNITY AND BEEN THERE, I 1439 00:56:56,112 --> 00:57:00,483 HAVE BEEN HERE FOR A LONG TIME. 1440 00:57:00,483 --> 00:57:01,951 RIGHT NOW WE NEED TO LOOK AT 1441 00:57:01,951 --> 00:57:03,019 THE BALANCE. THERE ARE SOME 1442 00:57:03,019 --> 00:57:07,157 OTHERS WHO ARE CRYING. THANK 1443 00:57:07,157 --> 00:57:09,692 YOU VERY MUCH. 1444 00:57:09,692 --> 00:57:11,661 >> THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE 1445 00:57:11,661 --> 00:57:15,498 THAT. SO THAT IS OUR LAST 1446 00:57:15,498 --> 00:57:17,734 SPEAKER TO SPEAK AT THIS PUBLIC 1447 00:57:17,734 --> 00:57:21,905 HEARING. WE HAVE EXHAUSTED THE 1448 00:57:21,905 --> 00:57:25,909 LIST OF FOLKS WHO HAVE SIGNED 1449 00:57:25,909 --> 00:57:30,814 UP ONLINE AS WELL AS THE IN 1450 00:57:30,814 --> 00:57:31,881 PERSON SPEAKERS. AS NOTED ON 1451 00:57:31,881 --> 00:57:32,949 THE MEETING AGENDA, FOLKS CAN 1452 00:57:32,949 --> 00:57:34,050 SEND WRITTEN COMMENTS ON THE 1453 00:57:34,050 --> 00:57:39,856 SUBJECT OF THIS HEARING TO ME 1454 00:57:39,856 --> 00:57:49,799 AT LISA.HERBOLD@SEATTLE.GOV. 1455 00:57:49,799 --> 00:57:52,302 THERE IS STILL ADDITIONAL TIME 1456 00:57:52,302 --> 00:57:58,374 FOR COMMENT. WITH THAT, PUBLIC 1457 00:57:58,374 --> 00:57:59,242 BARGAINING IS NOW CLOSED. 1458 00:57:59,242 --> 00:58:00,043 BEFORE WE ADJOURN, JUST 1459 00:58:00,043 --> 00:58:07,717 CHECKING TO SEE, ARE THERE ANY 1460 00:58:07,717 --> 00:58:09,385 COMMENTS FROM COMMITTEE 1461 00:58:09,385 --> 00:58:10,353 MEMBERS? LOOKING FOR VIRTUAL 1462 00:58:10,353 --> 00:58:11,287 HANDS RAISED. NOT SEEING ANY, 1463 00:58:11,287 --> 00:58:17,293 THE NEXT MEETING OF THE PUBLIC 1464 00:58:17,293 --> 00:58:19,896 SAFETY MEETING SCHEDULED FOR 1465 00:58:19,896 --> 00:58:20,997 THIS COMING MONDAY ON AUGUST 1466 00:58:20,997 --> 00:58:22,498 14th AT 2:00 P.M. AGAIN, WE 1467 00:58:22,498 --> 00:58:25,335 APPRECIATE THE PUBLIC SAFETY 1468 00:58:25,335 --> 00:58:28,571 COMMITTEE MEMBERS. THIS IS THE 1469 00:58:28,571 --> 00:58:29,606 SECOND PUBLIC SAFETY AND 1470 00:58:29,606 --> 00:58:34,677 COMMUNITY SERVICES MEETING OF 1471 00:58:34,677 --> 00:58:36,446 THE DAY. THE TIME IS NOW 6: 30 1472 00:58:36,446 --> 00:58:37,447 P.M. AND WE ARE 1473 00:58:38,915 --> 00:58:49,225 ADJOURNED. THANK YOU.