Before we start with you, we will go through a kick report from the occ director and the commissioners. Good evening, director hicks. Good evening. Good evening, president mazzucco, commissioners, chief suhr, and captain and members of the Mission Police district, community. I enjoy the director of the office of citizen complaints and in fact, here this evening from the occ is senior investigater Edward Mcmahon is standing up in the back of the room. It is a pleasure to be here this evening to speak with you about the functions of the officers of the citizen complaints. We are also known as the occ. We are the Third Largest civilian oversight of Law Enforcement agency in the united states, only surpassed in size by chicago and new york. Civilian oversight agencies. For historical purposes, the board of supervisors, sponsored a Charter Amendment in 1982, to create the office of citizen complaints and we became fully operational in 1983. And i have been the director of the occ for almost
Partner with Law Enforcement and things are happening with the community, not to the community. With that, let me introduce the organization because i think that folds into whats happening in the district so she can answer more questions. Deanna i would say that one of the more forward seconds of moving forward. Im sorry, please identify yourself. Im sorry, deanna navar leche, thank you for having us here. Ill just pick up where paul left off. In terms of the organized section, it really emphasizes the importance of making sure theres a bridge between social Service Agencies and enforcement agencies, that theres an ongoing dialogue as paul mentioned in trying to create a strategy that is effective not only in targeting individuals that are high at risk and in custody but targeting the faith based community, using our strength as a community in general to mobilize and organize communities to promote stop the violence. I would say this is one of the newer approaches throughout my time in
To create some kind of street fair to promote a message to try to decrease violence and offer resources. This again is a new component in terms of a violence prevention approach. Its about trying to break down all the individual service needs, really making sure that we wrap around families and that we look forward and try to create as Much Community dialogue. Its up and down, top and bottom, so there is no disconnect. Hopefully in the future we will strive to create a better response to violence, a more coordinated violence. My hope is that we can deepk cease decrease some of these homicide attempts and hopefully just decrease violence. You did mention tonight we are having a Community Meeting at the libby rec center at 6 00 tonight. Thats on the corner of montana and plymouth and that will be one of those Community Gatherings that we have had in the omi we have had a large number of homicides compared to other years. We shouldnt have any at all and its a chance for Community Members
Within, say, visitacion valley, has has this resulted in real communication and collaboration, what are the examples of your organization and the department and how they Work Together. I dont want to steal deannas thunder, the stuff where you see literally on the streets where you are talking about specific streets and specific districts. But from the i and the o perspective, how that works, that information as it goes up, whats happening is we have regular meetings from these agencies that are dealing with that information when it comes in from the streets. So its not just we may have had an incident that happened last week, for example, its what happens as a result lets say there is a shooting in whatever neighborhood. As a result of that shooting, the situation doesnt end because someone was arrested. The situation doesnt end right there. Individuals are still dealing with that trauma. The neighborhood is still affected. You need to figure out what the root causes are from that shoo