A mind set within the department as well as with the public that these occurrences arent acts of god. They are when theres an element of negligence on the part of one party or the other and so we cant continue to look at them as something beyond our control. Theyre completely within our control if we slow down. If we Pay Attention, if we get off the phone while driving and stop at stop signs and red lights this will lessen the issues. Thats the driving force behind getting rid of the word accidents and obviously i i skipped over one. Dealing with bicyclists involved and collisions. One of the concerns that were not capturing all of the incidents involving bicycles involved in collisions. A bicycle driving riding down the roadway hits a pot hole and the rider actually takes a fall. That say traffic collision as defined by state law and we have made that clear over the years and we reemphasized that mainly in large part because of concerns its not taken seriously so we wanted to make sur
The upward trend with officers and primary mission is Traffic Enforcement and the motorcycle officers. We are in tune with projected in Staffing Levels or goals as you can see. We have february 2014 the goal was to have 24 members at Traffic Company that are stationed at the hall of justice. We are right there. The district stations we currently have 24 and the airport we currently have three. The good news is we just started a class on monday of 10 officers and we project they will be fully certified to operate our motorcycles in two months, so help is on the way in regards to the use of dedicated resources for Traffic Enforcement. With that said i will open it up to any questions you may have. Thank you very much commander and chief for doing this presentation. Obviously this has been an issue that is in the forefront of the press and what is happening here in the city, and i want to say i have been talking to the chief about this for a few weeks and hes been keeping me apprize of wh
Operate our motorcycles in two months, so help is on the way in regards to the use of dedicated resources for traffic enforcement. With that said i will open it up to any questions you may have. Thank you very much commander and chief for doing this presentation. Obviously this has been an issue that is in the forefront of the press and what is happening here in the city, and i want to say i have been talking to the chief about this for a few weeks and hes been keeping me apprize of what is happening and hes on top of it and he said earlier a lot of this stuff people just need to disloa slow down and its good advice and there is clearly a correlation between the number of incidents and staffing and i am glad staffing is on the rise thanks to the Mayors Office but in the interim it is possible for us to put more officers on the street doing traffic enforcement, not necessarily motorcycle officers but officers and patrol cars. It never hurts to increase the enforcement and i talked to th
Making conclusions based on physical evidence and so forth and we have a good number of officers who have a interest in that and they have supplemented our investigative capacity of the investigators who are full time in Traffic Enforcement. Third one was the creation of the traffic collision unit and merging the hit and run unit and the major accident investigation team. That leads me to almost the last one. The last bulletin in terms of vehicle collisions really makes a point that the use of the term vehicle collisions is most appropriate to identify the unintended coming together of bodies on our roadway as opposed to the term accident. We want to create a mind set within the department as well as with the public that these occurrences arent acts of god. They are when theres an element of negligence on the part of one party or the other and so we cant continue to look at them as something beyond our control. Theyre completely within our control if we slow down. If we Pay Attention,
Will open it up to any questions you may have. Thank you very much commander and chief for doing this presentation. Obviously this has been an issue that is in the forefront of the press and what is happening here in the city, and i want to say i have been talking to the chief about this for a few weeks and hes been keeping me apprize of what is happening and hes on top of it and he said earlier a lot of this stuff people just need to disloa slow down and its good advice and there is clearly a correlation between the number of incidents and staffing and i am glad staffing is on the rise thanks to the Mayors Office but in the interim it is possible for us to put more officers on the street doing traffic enforcement, not necessarily motorcycle officers but officers and patrol cars. It never hurts to increase the enforcement and i talked to the chief. Tijts are expensive and i know the money goes to the general fund and not necessarily the department. Can we pull money from the general fu