Report to City
Council
May 10, 2022
Reimagining Public Safety
Context
Process
Recommendations
Next Steps
2 • San José has a long history of reform movements
• Challenges persist: bias and trauma
• We need the right expert for the right job
• Address root causes of crime
• System has to be held accountable
3 Key Takeaways
Recommendations
Alternative Safety
Responses
Mental Health
Homelessness
Traffic Safety
Gender based violence
Community Campaign
Community Service Officers
Community
Conditions
Vision: Campaign Zero
Civilian
Oversight
Independent Investigation
Oversight Commission
Inspector General
Arbitration
Support Impacted
Families
Trauma Relief Fund
GBI: Gender Based Violence
Prevent Exits to Homelessness
Police Conduct
Search
Critical Incident: Families
Drug Testing
4 Personnel
Training
Hiring
Enforcement
Criminalization of
Homelessness
Context
715 days & counting…
Unity & Solidarity
It’s happening here too
Time to Act
5 “Develop a process to redirect resources away from policing toward other community-based solutions. This effort needs to incorporate and center the voices of individuals traditionally left out of our decision making, in partnership with diverse community-based organizations that have long served and represented the voices of those community members harmed by systemic racism.”
–June 15, 2020, letter to the Mayor Liccardo and City Council entitled, This Budget Fails to Measure up to this Moment, signed by over 75 community-based organizations. 6 PROCESS
May
Process: Timeline
7 April
March
Feb
Jan
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sept
Aug
July
June
May
Reimagining Advisory
Group Dissolves RiPS Appointments Study Sessions
Subcommittees
Begin
Recommendations
Submitted
Recommendations
Finalized
Youth Council Hearing
Council Establishes
Reimagining Public Safety
Community Advisory
Committee (RiPS)
RiPS Commences City Appointees Seated
Subcommittees
Established:
1/Alternative Responses
2/Promotion & Prevention
3/Accountability & Reform
4/Steering Committee
5/Youth Council
Recommendations
Developed
Youth Council Begins
Public Input
Hearings
Voting on Recs
Report
Completed
Present
8 Center Lived
Experience
Committee
Recommendations
Alternative
Responses
Police
Accountability
& Reform
Prevention &
Promotion
9 Alternative Safety Responses
Support for Impacted Families
Community Conditions
Civilian Oversight & Accountability
Police Conduct
Personnel Practices
Enforcement Priorities
Alternative Safety Responses
• Mental Health
• Homelessness
• Traffic Safety
• Gender-Based Violence
• Community Campaign
• Community Service Officers
10 Support for
Impacted Families
• Trauma Relief Fund
• Guaranteed Basic Income:
Survivors of Gender Based Violence
• Prevent Exits to Homelessness
11 Improve Community
Conditions
• Housing, Wages, Resources
• Campaign Zero
12 Civilian Oversight &
Accountability
• Independent Investigation
• Civilian Oversight Commission
• Inspector General
• Arbitration
13 Police Conduct
• Search
• Critical Incident: Families
• Drug Testing
14 Personnel
• Training
• Hiring
15 Enforcement
16 • Criminalization of Homelessness
• Urgency & Opportunity: Change
• Centering Community: Lived Experience
• We need the right person for the right job: Partners
• Address root causes: Trauma
• System has to be held accountable: Policy & Oversight • Next Steps: Action Plan
17 Conclusion
Questions?
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