Community Safety Mayoral Transition Committee Report
Outcome #1:The City of San Jose is a City with alower crime rate, where residentsfeel safer.
Success Metric: The rate of decrease in property crimeand violent crime.
Success Metric: The increasing rate of residents thatfeel safe.
Outcome #2:Pedestrians, bicyclists, and drivers jointlyshare our streets safely.
Success Metric: The rate of reduction in total traffic,pedestrian, andbicyclist fatalities, serious injuries and crashes.
FY 23-24 Recommendations
Recommendation #1: The Police Department should continueto prioritize thedevelopment of a community engagement strategy. The community engagementstrategy should focus on outreach to various affinity groups, a diverse subset ofneighborhoods, and to other demographics within the City of San Jose. As part ofthe plan, the police department should identify implementation success metrics.
Success Metric: The submission of a report and anattached work plan fromthe San Jose Police Department regarding the implementation of saidcommunity engagement strategy and recommendations on how to trackthe success of the strategy.
Recommendation #2: Work with the County and non-profitsto further strengthenthe substance use and mental health experts that work hand-in-hand with otherCity of San Jose personnel.
Success Metric: The rate of increase for dedicatedsubstance use andmental health professionals working in coordination with the City andnon-profit community. 1 Recommendation #3: Increase the number of police officers on the street by fillingvacancies in the Police Department and explore innovative recruitment strategiesfor attracting and retaining Police Officers.
Success Metric: The rate of increase in the numberof street-ready officerswithin the San Jose Police Department by the end of FY 23/24.
Success Metric: The rate of decrease in police officersleaving employmentwith the City of San Jose.
Recommendation #4: The City of San Jose should committo funding forself-enforcing streets and roll out new designs on a more expedited timeline. Tothat end, the City of San Jose should fully fund the rapid build-out of the City’sVision Zero Action Plan.
Success Metric: The increased rate of completion forthe miles of road inthe City’s Vision Zero Action Plan by the end of FY 23/24.
FY 24+ Recommendations
Recommendation #1: Support the buildout of “completestreets” improvementsby funding implementation of the Better Bike Plan, establishing a dedicatedpedestrian safety improvement program, and building staff capacity to apply forand deliver grant-funded complete streets projects.
Success Metric: Rate of completion for the miles ofroads with completestreets improvements by the end of calendar year 2025.
Recommendation #2: Increase community policing efforts,such as by increasingthe number of police officers conducting patrols on foot or by bicycle, and byincreasing the number of community service officers available to work withbusinesses and residents.
Success Metric: The rate of increase in police officersand communityservice officers conducting foot and bicycle patrols, and participating incommunity policing. 2 Recommendation #3: Analyze police calls for service to determine the number ofadditional community service officer positions that could be added in the budgetto free police officers from calls for which a community service officer response issufficient.
Success Metric:The rate at which community serviceofficers respond tocall types for which a community service officer response is appropriate.
Recommendation #4: Increase sworn staffing in theSan Jose Police Department toalign service levels with the needs of the community.
Success Metric: The Department meets its responsetime targets forresponding to calls for service and has adequate resources to investigateworkable cases. 3 Community Safety Transition Committee Roster / Acknowledgements:
1. Councilmember Rosemary Kamei, Council Co-Chair,2. Councilmember Bien Doan, Council Co-Chair,3. Gabrielle Antolovich, Community Co-Chair, Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Center4. Leland Wilcox, City Administration Lead, City of San Jose5. Antonina Ettare, Hyde Park Neighborhood Association6. Sean Pritchard, San Jose Police Officers' Association7. Catherine Alvarez, San Jose Police Officers' Association8. Scott Seaman, Police Foundation9. Bob Jonsen, Santa Clara County Sheriff10.Anthony Mata, City of San Jose11.Michael Van Every, Republic Properties12. Darrell Cortez, Retired San Jose Police Department Officer13. Matt Tuttle, IAFF Local 23014. Shiloh Ballard, Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition15. Jason Reynolds, Emmanuel Baptist Church16. Marissa McKeown, Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office17. Mary Hien Pollett, Evergreen School District18. Nubia Ramirez, Hoffman Via-Monte Neighborhood19. Dave Noel, Ericson Neighborhood Association20. Kairong Qian, Chinese Community Member21. Jorge Arellano, Alpha22. Marco Hernandez, Mariscos Costa Alegre23. Mike LaBarbera, Terracommercial Real Estate24. Paul Kelly, The United Coalition of Public Safety25. Sherri Terao, Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services Department26. Athar Siddiqee, South Bay Islamic Association 4 Mayoral Transition Committees "Glossary"
Goals:Each committee has a mandate that includes thegoalsof the committee. Forexample, the goals of the community safety committee are to (1) increasepedestrian and traffic safety, and (2) reduce street level crime and improve the feltexperience of safety for residents and small businesses. In meetings, we've alsoused the words "pillar", "north star", and "mandate".
Outcomes:The transition committees are going to start by discussing what success looks likefrom a holistic community impact or state of well being perspective. We can thinkof these asoutcomes. To give an example, the CommunitySafety Committee maydecide that one of their outcomes is “San José residents feel safe anytime,anywhere in San José” or “San José residents feel safe walking in theirneighborhood.” Recommendations:The Committees will spend the second and third committee meetings generatingrecommendations. Each Committee will produce 3 - 5recommendations for theupcoming budget cycle, and 3 - 5 recommendations for the longer term (withinthe next two years).
The recommendations will also have a success metric attached but Committeemembers are not expected to define actual specific targets for these successmetrics. Recommendations may or may not be specific to a particular Cityprogram or service. For example, stricter enforcement of speeding in heavilytrafficked intersections or increasing the number of traffic calming solutions maybe specific recommendations from the Community Safety Committee. Eachtransition committee will rank their recommendations in order of which they thinkwill have the biggest impact on their goal and outcome. 5 Success MetricsOutcomes and recommendations should be measurable via asuccess metricsuchas a community indicator, which is a performance measure that quantifies trendsaffecting outcomes (the well-being of communities). Success metrics are typicallyexpressed as a rate or percentage and can be disaggregated by race and locationto identify disparities and and take action to close the disparities. To give anexample, an outcome may have the success metric “the percentage of San Joseresidents who feel safe anytime anywhere in San Jose.” The goal is to identifyboththe outcome and the recommendation success metricsso the City does notbecome overly focussed on measuring a particular program or service that is notultimately improving the higher level outcome. When an outcome is not clear orcannot be readily measured, other program or service level performancemeasures may be used as proxies. For example, a proxy success metric forpedestrian and traffic safety might be a reduction in the crash injury rate.Committee members are not expected to define actual specific targets for theseoutcome metrics.
Product:Theproductof the transition committees will be 15- 25 recommendations for theupcoming budget cycle, and 15 - 25 recommendations for the longer term.
The budget cycle recommendations will feed directly into budget prioritizationover the course of two council meetings. In the first council meeting,Councilmembers will provide a publicreadoutof thecommitteerecommendations. In the second council meeting, Councilmembers will rankoutcomes across all the transition committees. The Administration will use theranked strategies from Council and the product from the transition committees asinputs in the normal budget process. 6