5/19/2021 - Meeting MaterialsThe Salt Lake City Racial Equity in
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The Salt Lake City Racial Equity in
Policing Commission
Public Listening Session
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Preliminary Findings: REP Commission May 19 Listening Session
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Other Responses:
Resources for mental health and addiction recovery
Increase in funding.
More mental health workers and fewer police
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Training
Policies and Practices
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What do you most want the Racial Equity in
Policing Commission to help change?
What else should the Training subcommittee know?
Trainers need to be from the neighborhood people that know the inns and the outs in the nuances of
the community
I particularly appreciate the recommendation that trainers themselves need to be diverse and
representative of the community
I would like to know more about how the training will promote Racial Equity
Training must be paired with accountability for consistent and sustainable behavior change
I believe that we need more officers than what we are coming up with for helping defuse mental
health situations we also need more social workers
Please train these folks by including citizens opinion
Thank you so much for your time and commitment to our community
Focus on ongoing efforts in the mix with point in time trainings as change takes time
I'd like them trained to do their job without firearms
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What are your thoughts on the
recommendations from the Training
subcommittee?
What else should the Policies and Practices subcommittee know?
What about 911 dispatchers? Are they being trained to gather information to relay to police
What are you doing to stop officers from profiling black and blown people while driving? My husband
is black and is pulled over disproportionately for th
what about a CTR type training?
I believe that's what the caller was referring to
Were there any findings that changed your personal views?
I'd like the REP commission to also look at the calls made to 911 by the public and if there are ways
that calls for service which may be themselves based in racism can be weeded out by dispatch.
Will the bias assessment be required and lead decision-making in the application process for
prospective officers AND performance reviews of existing officers?
Great work to the committee. Thank you.
Is there thought to taking infractions out of police purview? Like traffic stops and things like that?
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What are your thoughts on the
recommendations from the Policies and
Procedures subcommittee?
What else should the School Safety subcommittee know?
In a predominate white state and even school environment, having SRO is what makes many young
people of color uncomfortable. This had not only been seen in high school, but students of color are
also against that in higher education. There are better ways to address people rather than just placing
SRO
Involve students in decisions about who their SRO will be and how they are asked to interact with
students, to determine what will impact positive change
The issue is less the officers at the schools but that the school administration is using them improperly
and calling on them to do things they shouldn't.
Police shouldn't be in schools. Why not the mental health workers instead?
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Telephone Comments (transcribed):
1) Okay, thank you, before my question, given the salt lake valley has always been a gathering
place for the indigenous peoples we acknowledge that this land which name for the youth tribe
is the traditional ancestral homelands, of the shoshone tribe and is the crossroads for. All of the
turtle island native nomads and indigenous settlers we stand in solidarity with our brothers and
sisters who are displaced Africans, Asians and recognize that Asian Pacific islander heritage
month is this month, and we also stand in solidarity and and with the Palestinians and
condemned the actions of the Israelis. My question is a bit of a twofold now that i've heard
some of the policies in because I just want to get some clarity on that listening session we were
just in. What my concern is is, these are trainings for the future, and is there a place that this
curriculum is made public as to how the training will be informed by the curriculum. What data,
what sort of is where yeah can we see the curriculum, so that the public may review it. Rather
than just because I think that's something that's important that the Community, be able to.
bring some feedback into that sort of policy and making i'm curious is officers are currently
excuse me i'm My tmj is affecting how I speak today. Is officers know qpr training and the
reason I asked this is because the majority of Much of the response and what we're seeing in
our communities is that responses to neuro divergent. People often ends in the centrality and
i'm curious if they're aware that qpr exists and to utilize those qpr tactics before responding
when it with anything other than less than lethal for someone like that. kind of what i'm tying
into that question is the recent clips of the Swedish officers that were tourists in New York City
and amongst the four of them, they were able to break up a violent fight that. With their
techniques of de escalation managed to. subdue those men, without any harm, like any fatal
harm to them, and it seems like it was quite easy technique to execute and that there was some
significant training for them to all be so coordinated, even on their personal time.
2) yeah Thank you, you had mentioned that a certain percentage of calls to police work for mental
health issues, I wonder what the criteria are that you use to make that determination and if
those are criteria you use when the call comes in, or only after it's been responded to thank you
3) Okay um so i'm a 40 year old one, almost 42 year old students have. an incredibly diverse
school district in Dallas Texas, which was predominantly black and Brown. And we had a was
Carter high school and I can tell you from my personal experience. That was a little over two
decades ago. As sorrows only represented forces antagonism and a sense of internalized racism
that perpetuates quite a lot of the bias that we see. That that are associated with as sorrows
within the black and brown school systems and how a lot of those racist ideologies seep in and
affect the quality of care and the quality of safety that our children have and the protections of
a checklist policing. With that just simply can't be met without a cultural understanding of how
we correct our youth and how elders within the Multi economies. Of of communities that exist
here how we call in our youth and how we correct our youth. And how this way is not the way
for children, children should not be policed children should not go to school in and fear this
authoritarian influence around them and instill so they can get a quality education. And I
disagree with having a sorrows as being a child of a family of several generations of students
who've passed through the SRO system only to experience how much of my family had been
affected by it. Because they were sucked in by that vortex of the school to prison pipeline, of
having friends people I love who go to prison. For you know youthful folly that ends up being
criminalized because there's an SRO officer there's an SRO rather than an elder right or. Not um
and it bothers me that you don't have K PR and that that sorrow officers who are in our schools
in a state that has such highest. numbers of youth self harm and you've completion that you
don't have officers that are qpr trained. it's it's it's disturbing to note that this is the first time
you're hearing of it when it's existed for quite a while. And i'm wondering why there seems to
be quite a lot of reinvention of processes when there's already good stuff that works out there
right and why that just not simply being incorporated in that current training. modalities it's
just, we need to keep our kids safe and COP have no business in our school. Maybe surrounding
perimeters and and that sort of thing, but we need to have a. You know, principles and you
know ways of being able to de escalate, even in like I said in the most dangerous situations, so
the evidence that we can do that to do want to.
Comment from Spanish line:
(Diego Munoz)(Salt Lake City)() There’s not security at RosePark school, we’d like to see a police officer
there watching the kids.
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