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Public Safety Commission - Questions & Answers PENDING QUESTIONS: October 7, 2024 – Regular Meeting Item 4. Public Safety Quarterly Report, Austin Police Department, including an update on the license plate reader program. 1. Can APD help us get a better understanding of violent crime going down, violent crime clearance rates staying the same, and account for APD staffing as it relates to those stats? The data suggests that violent crime over all is slightly treading down. Crime clearance rates vary depending on the type of crime and there is no definitive way to corollate APD staffing to clearance rates. 2. How many people were stopped that did not result in an arrest (false positive stops) via the License Plate Reader Program? See question 4 below. Reader Program? 3. What amount of data was shared to state or other agencies via the License Plate We have received no requests for data sharing/preservation, and we do not share our cameras directly with other agencies (the system is capable of sharing directly, but we do not allow it to be utilized in this way to ensure compliance with the city resolution). 4. Data on demographics of people with false positive arrests via the License Plate Reader Program. During the first two audit periods (Go live/March 28, 2024, to Sept 30, 2024), There were 21 incidents where subjects were detained in connection with ALPR information, but no arrest was made. Of these incidents, the driver in those stops was identified as a female 7 times and a male 14 times. Of these incidents, the driver was identified as black 3 times, Middle Eastern 1 times, and white 17 times. Detaining someone associated with a stolen vehicle/stolen license plate, STOP and ID bolo, etc, will not necessarily result in an arrest. In reviewing the dataset, the most frequent reason for someone being stopped/detained but not arrested is a function of the vehicle owner/driver reporting a stolen license plate but still having the plates displayed on their vehicle. The is one STOP and ID for Public Safety Commission - Questions & Answers a kidnapping suspect (APD identified the suspect, but the case was not ready to be filed as further investigation needed to be conducted). If I were going to look into "false positive stops," it would be a situation in which the ALPR system and Officer made a mistake. For example, the Officer gets an ALPR hit for ABC123, stops it (without verifying), but finds the ACTUAL plate to be ABC122. There are no reports of this situation occurring. Another example is an Officer getting a hit for ABC123 on a White F150 but pulling over a DIFFERENT white F150 (plate 555ABCD) in the heat of the moment. There are no reports of this situation occurring. November 4, 2024 – Regular Meeting Item 2. Public Safety Quarterly Report, Austin Fire Department, including an update on the October 2024 wildfire in East Austin. 1. Narcan admin dropped — sounds to be part of a broader trend nationally, but how does this compare? Are we better or worse than national trend (we had been worse)? Anything we are doing that might explain any differences? Pending