McMillan, Acquanette (Netta)
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Attachments:
Yadi<
Monday, October 23, 2023 8:52 AM
PublicComment-AutoResponse
Public Comment - Pasadena City Council Meeting 10/23/23 Data Shows ShotSpotter Leads to Dead Ends and Wasted Resources in Pasadena - Knock LA.pdf
CAUTION: This email was delivered from the Internet. Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe. Report phish using the Phish Alert Button. Learn more....
Hi,
Please find attached my public comment for the October 23, 2023 Pasadena City Council Meeting, agenda item 20. Review of Shotspotter
Thanks,
Yadi
(Attachments: 1)
10/23/2023
Item 20
1 ^KNOCKuNEWS Anal-^is C^inion Culture^5UPPOK1
TiRENDIItS .·PUa.lCHQ·Ja^+3 COKFIOT^ ,TOl.t3 BS'JMl.rSV SW1TAW1A©0 y fl ANALYSISFAS.V.fW. f:UCE 1EOi/3.0QY yK.
Data Shows ShotSpotter Leads to
Dead Ends and Wasted Resources in
Pasadena
in the past year and a; hailf,, Pasadena! pa-lnce ha-K's spent 285 hours re'sponding to ca.l3s and comin-g up empty-ha.ncjsd 75% of the time- rSmltLAi-'auri 24.3D33
^iiffl1^am ^^ 5-
mm «^^vs W-.
^»
a ^f^SS- I^SM^N-•M
SM
fc'swas
.-s~r\
s
&iI.
m
!'-i
Thatfl credit: Soui'^lT&iRjtiiy. lEiyjscraitaE fatf vicy.i.
Sinoc 2022; Ps'^ri^ns Po1if(- Department (PPD) has contracEcd v.-ith acoustic sunrci3!sncc compan\r ShotSpottcr to use iEs tc'chnaEog'y to better respond to shoottngs, curb gun walcncc, and help find mdcncc used to soilyc criTiics- But daEs obtaEncd through pufalic records requcsta by Kn.ocfe LA from 2022 and 2023 tcU a starkly diffra-cnE story, one flifininimal arresEii, Ittdc obEaincd cvtdcncc, anicl hundreds aifhaiara ofn'astcd police rcsaurccs.
ShortSp&ttcr onJy alerted a hotmcidc once in 2022, durirag a year vAcre there were 49 shooting in^'csti^atiaitis, — wiith t4 people injurcfi or killed JEI a F.hootiTig. It onty alerted the poSicc to tivc gianah-at wcEtTns a\so that year PPD priori'tizcs ShatSpottcr aLerts over otrjicr calls, including 911 caUs. Per the ci(;.p!g|,It[G'gTtf's-J-":?J1^r ShatSpD-tter calls arc "FTiority 1' and arc approac-1-icri as a crime in prci^rcss vrith a firearm. Yet, as fhc data shoe's, the police are dcctLcatiTiig'v/cU CT.'CT a m.ifixnty of their IrEmc and rcfiou.recs to s. type of ca!3 ynlikdy to actually help them Iftcatc any sigTi of a s.hootiTtg.
Record-s show 75% nt' those calls had no link to ,a flll caJi; sending piT'lic.c oiit to investigate alerts not JnttEated by a person rcpffl-EiTig' a crime. Even after cam'assing an aBert, 'ciTtly 22%. of podicc walked ai'i,'s)''with a |:*a-l3cc rcpairt iii 2022. The department has coUccttvcly spent 28.3 h-oura on. Shot.SpnttcF calEs, since the contra.cE a start, adciing to- the gToning fiscal tTnpact on the ciiy'E budgcA.
A iriiarjii pTCielAid to Pas&d^ui PSffiM'i
s'ifrimtlThitr-A-tnd shows iskefe .iilertis occa.T-T'ai in a oneyssv tsjne^fia:s\&. (>i>er7S% Qflhes;e aferts
vidtild eiifl! uj! tuicfe ffio.evfifer'uae cifB sPioc.tlTifli CTvae bev'^ Ct'v'wialKd.
The data froin the first two c[uartcr5 of th]!* year Es Ercnding to be I'raorc af the same. In 76% of a'c-rfcs, no gun casiTi.gs were found, and o-nhr13 of the alerts lcd to a crim.ind report that in'i'estigators can tni}a'ifi' up on..
The future (if ShotSpoEEcr in Pasadena is unck-ar. The PPD's prcRfntatrnn in June- to P^adcna City C(»unci]'s Public Safety Committee vfas met with tepid rcsponKes. The data presented, iniTrorcd that of other citjca that bsvc ca.ncclcci their contracts with the company. So' far, $430',000 of the cEty's 3- year $(l3Q,OCilO contract for SoLindThiinktng's scnriccs and monitoring has been spent. That doesn't tatec into acco'.imt the onknovf-r.i cnist of resources the .c'ity is. sp.criiding' to f.basc al.crtg that only came up cm.pt^-h.andcd. 'VVhcn sakcd it'he thought SbotSp^otte-r tias reduced the number of shooticag [nckEcnts, PPD Co-mmandcr TOlItam Grisafc said, "i? I ivcrc to say that ShotSpoEEcr is rfiipoRKibac for the decrease, no. It is the coordination of a lot of'diftercnt tnmgs.'"
The ikind ofjourn.zIBs.m you actuailyreadfo the end.
Sign up for our newslei'terta get -tae best of Snccfc LA nsht tc< yoL'r unboac- ^•ri^'"!''"^.^ •?'^-„<-
WSl 9a^
(pMtNoera
s im ®
ft
's
^^•'^ BanAlAu ovK»y^^r»^wvf^''jT^'^^mjsvS»s^<,M^SsMSy. ^"^^ m
^indir ii3nil'^ffTn^nrf nmf tofflTCB 'tf'm nd aSarytfUL- ,;<,-'^ g^y.i3
v
•ss:
II
s SiRBan'IBy.SUTOfiI dKTSW: WBSEflKllE'SiaSIOCIVE-'SrS- CSOEBEOSiRJl ss