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98-1039ORIGINAi. Presented By: OF SAINT PAUL, NIINNESOTA RESOLUTION �J Referred To: Committee:Date: 1 WHEREAS, the Saint Paul Police Department has received a grant from the Minnesota Department 2 of Public Safety, in the amount of $125,000 for police overtime, for the period October 1, 1998 to 3 September 30,1999, and 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 WHEREAS, the Department of Public Safety requests a designated authority for the execufion of agreements, and RESOLVED, that the Saint Paul City Council accept this grant award for $125,000 for police overtime and authorizes Chief William Finney, to enter into an agreement with the Department of Public Safety . 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Adopted by Council: Date: Requested by Council File # — /03 Green Sheet ' i DEPARTMINUOFFICNCOUNCIL Po2ice Departmer=t CON�AC7 PFRSON 8 PHONE Wiliiam Firr.ev 2 DATEINRWTED 11/9/98 �� TOTAL # OF SIGNATURE PAGES GREEN SHEET No � �.,,�,��.� � �� ..,.��d� 0��- ❑.«�.�,��. ❑,.�.�m �.,,w.��,,,m..�,� ❑ (CLIP ALL LOCATIONS FOR SIGNATURE) �� 61045 Acceptar.ce of Overtime Grar,t for $125,000 and authorizatior: of CHief rirr:e}� to accept ar,d ex�end the funds. Funds to be exper:ded ir, 1999. PLANNING CAMMISSION CIB CAMMRTEE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Has fhis persoNfirm ever vrorked under a wnhad far Nis tlepartmenl'7 VES NO Has ihis persoNfirtn ever been a city employce7 YES NO Does this person/firm possess a sldll not normaltypossessad by arry curteM city employee? YES NO Is this peisat�rtn a farpeted vendo? YES NO �F�lain all Yes answets on separate sheet arM akach to 9reen sheet TIATING PRO&,EM ISSUE, OPPORTUMTY (Who, What, When, Where, Why) The Minr.esota State Legislature, through the Department of Pubiic Safety, has awarded the Saint Pau1 Police Department an Overtime Grant in the amount of $125,000. DPS procedure requires that the goverr,ing body name a person and exper.d [he funds. NANTAGESIFAPPROVED The Saint Paul Police Departmer.t wi11 receive a grant for Overtime in the amount of $125,000•00 a � �� 3'�,.�.�':ei �...�'� None The Saint Paul Police Departmeet will not have the Overtime funding necessary for many of the Community Policir,g ir,itiatives which have made Sair.t Paul a safe city. 125,000 COST/REVENUE BUDfiEfED (GRCLE ON� YES NO souece State of MN Department of Public Safy��riymNwsea Please see the attached information for detail of exper�i�trtta�Er�.f funds. CI�CI [I �I2�� ^i�:'G�T �'r�.�'sb�?( NOV 16 1998 ��V MAYOR'S OFFICE q�-tos9 1 This form is to be used as the cover sheet for our ant a iicauon. CONTRACTING AGENCY: Use your legal name and Project Director Name � Bro £uIl address. This is the fiscal agent with whom the grant agreement will be esecuted. 6 51 2 9 2-3 507 Telephone Number ( ) St. Pau1 Police Department 100 E. llth Street FaY Number ( 651 ) 292-3542 Saint Pau1, MN 55101 CONTACI' MAILING ADDRESS: (If different than Contact Name: above) Amy Brown Telephone Number ( 651 ) 292-3507 Fax Number ( 651 ) 292-3542 PROJECT SERVICE ARFA (Counties/Cities) Project Start Date: Project End Date: � City of Saint Pau1 10/1/98 9/30/99 Grant a�eements wili not be pracessed without these MN Tax ID # Federal Empioyee ID # numbers: N/A 416005 5 21 z'o�,� cnarva r I � i25,000 ° .00 Project Summary - 50 words or less in the space below: The Saint Paul Police Uepartnent proposes to enhapce police services in the following areas: enhanced probation, detector d9g program, curfew and truancy, gun suppression, neighborhood service areas, retail areas, traffic enforcement. Page t FY99 COMMUNITY-ORIENTED POLICING (COPS) CVERTIME GRANTS PROGRAM Q�' z St. Pau1, MN 55101 2Authorized Official I,egal Name StreeY - Ciiy - Zip . Phone William K. Finney 100 E. lith Street 651 292-3588 St. Pau1 MN 55101 � ) 3.Operat�ng Agency (;f different from # I) Legal Name Street - City - Zip Phone � ) 4.Contact Person for further information on application Legai I�ame Streee - City - Zip Phone Amy Brown 100 E. 11th Street 651 292-3507 St. Paul, MN 55201 � ) 5. I cerfify that the information rontained herein is true and accyrate'to the best of my knowled�e and that I submit this application on behalf of the applicant agenc�+-� Signature of Authorized Official: T`itle: Ghief of Police ,� Date: g�4�gg Page 2 FY99 COMMUNITY-ORIENTED POLICING {COPS) OVERTIFAE GRANTS PROGRAM 1_ Applicafion Agency (with which contract is to be ececuted) a�-�o�9 3 (1) Describe the project you hope to implement (specifically state the problem you will address). (2) Describe the se.rvices you intend to provide and the population you will serve (identify the specific geographic location and why you chose the siie). (3) DesQibe how the need for this project was identified and how this program will address that need (include facts on crime demographics for the target azea). {4) Describe the planning process you propose to implement (Provide spe�c information about the individuals and organizations that actively helped in the planning process). (�) If other organizations will help provide services, describe their role. You may ese up to ten (10) attachment pages to support this narrative. Attached. Page 3 FY99 COMMUNIIY-ORIENTED POLICING (COPS) OVERTIM'c GRANTS PROGRAM p�� - ��1 ECT OVERVIEW COMMIJNITY ORIENTED POLICING GRANT: OVERTIME The City of Saint Paul, home of the Minnesota State Capitol, has a population of 272 235. Smaller than its twin sister city of Minueapolis which has a population of 368,383, Saint Paul has a personality which also differs from its sister city. Both cities occupy approximately 55 squaze miles. However, in Saint Paul, the energy seems to be in the city's nei�hborhoods whereas in Minneapolis the energy appears to be in its downtown retail and business district. These differences play out over and over each day as residents and visitors go about their business and activities in each of the cities. Saint Paulites like their city quiet. They like the orderliness of a well run municipal govemment. Expectations of delivery are so high that elected officials have been looking for ways to make government seem to disappear from people's lives while still maintaining the procedures which result in the city's functioning. Annually 1.2 million non-business visitors come to Saint Paul to see the world class attractions which include: the Science Museum, the Children's Museum, the Ordway Music Theatre, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra,local festivals, unique shops in channing neighborhoods, government buildings such as the Capitol and the Minnesota History Center, and instihxtions such as the Cathedral. Even the city's streets get their due with visitors driving up and down Summit Avenue, the longest stretch of Victorian residences in the United States, and with Grand Avenue noted as one of the country's most lucrative retail streets. All of this didn't just happen. It happened because of the city's underlying modus operandi which is, simply put, if one is going to do something, do it well. A significant partner in all of this has been the Saint Paul Police Department (SPPD). Over the past six years, the SPPD has been at the forefront of partnership with the city in making the city a quality place to live. The Saint Paul Police Departnient instituted Community Policing (COP) department-wide upon the appointment of Chief Finney in July of 1992. It has been six years since Chief Finney has led the community-policing effort. With the six year milestone here, the department can look back and review where the department has been and more specifically, how successful the community policing programs have been in order to combat the vagaries of crime. Like most things involved with the human condition, the incidence and types of crime also ebbs and flows. Drive-by shootings did not occur ten years ago but aze a fact of life in our violence-prone society. The incidence of drive-by shootings can never be taken lightly and thus the incident still ranks high on the police priority listing for calls for service. These and other late twentieth cenhuy crime examples continue to be labor intensive issues for law enforcement personnel. Six years ago truancy and curfew status offenses were not considered serious and were seemingly left over indicators of a more permissive society. Three yeazs ago a truancy and curfew center was started to initiate a program and to analyze the effects of tnzancy and curfew and how extensive the problem was. The schools, police and other community agencies began to realize how debilitatin� truancy was to the student, the student's family and to the business community. The program has just completed its third year with ever expanding numbers of both truants and curfew violators. -1- a � -t o� More traffic accidents aze being reported because of current insurance laws and requirements. More traffic accidents are occurring because there are simply more cazs on Saint Paul's streets and residents aze driving more miles annually than ever before. Fatalities may not be increasing, but some of the credit here must be given to the medical state of art at Regions HospitaPs emer�ency trauma room and the concomitant trainin� of medical staff. The explosion of guns upon the urban scene, especially the number of guns being used by youth, is a phenomenon that was not part of the crime scene five yeazs ago. "I`he need to e�tract fireazms out of our violent society has become critical. The return of the "beat cop", the storefront, the substation and other community assignments has culminated in the Neighborhood Service Area (NSA) and now every patrol officer and sergeant has been assigned to an NSA. This identification of the individual o�cer to a particulaz geographic assignment in place of a shift assignment has given the community the means to interact with each officer on an on-going basis, and, allows the officer to develop a more in-depth execution of law enforcement and peace keeping duties. Saint Paul has spent the last six years attempting to stem the tide of financial resources leaving the city and shoring up its neighborhoods so that there can be a positive quality of life including the local delivery of services which sma11 businesses provide. The SPPD has developed partnerships with business associations, shopping centers and other commercial centers in order to a11ow shoppers, shop keepers, and the community as a whole to continue to transact the daily business of commerce. An increased presence of beat officers throughout the city in the commercial azeas has provided the foundation for the resurgence which has been building throughout the city. It has been said that Saint Paul has more civiccelebrations than any other city of its size. From Grand Old Day - the lazgest on-day festival in the United States - to the Harvest Festival Parade which has been delighting Eastsiders for the past seventy-five years, the quality and number of Saint Paul's special events and neighborhood celebrations are the shining crown of the city's charming personality and contributes to making it one of the more colorful lazge cities throughout the country. T`he neighborhood's special events rely on the presence of the SPPD to allow people to have a comfort level so that even when one is in the midst of the 300,000 participants of Grand Old Day, one can spot the police officer's hat in the crowd and be reassured that all has been planned out. Because of this involvement with the neighborhoods, after-event reports often cite that no disturbances occurred during the event. -2- q( -to�� A particular special event in the city has been the concentration and parading of old cazs and street rods along specified routes in the city, particulazly University and Snelling Avenues. The cazs attract onlookers and, because they are constantly moving back and forth along the streets, the situation causes more disruption than if they were stationery. The investment by the owners of the cars is considerable so that the safety and relarive quiet of Saint Paul streets becomes an extremely attractive place to parade their cazs and network with other classic car aficionados. Events such as this contribute to the overall vitality of the city. The Canine Unit has diversified over the past six yeazs and now include detector dogs which are trained to sniff out illegal nazcotics. Due to the increasing amount of street level narcotics activity which changes location like water going around an obstacle, strategies to counteract this illegal mazket aze constantly being adjusted. The detector dogs offer the SPPD the ability to find illegal drugs not only during searches, but by interrupting the drug flow at points of contact such as train and bus depots, the airport, and all of the ovemight delivery services such as UPS, Federal Express and the US Postal Service. Community involvement since the inception of Saint Paul's seventeen district planning councils, the local planning which is on-going in the city epitomizes the collaborative nature of Saint Paul. SPPD's three district commanders hold regular meetings with citizens and neighborhood leaders are on a first name basis with the command staf£ Out of this regular and intensive interaction, the ability to fine tune both la�v enforcement and peacekeeping special projects arise. Not only are there regular district commander meetings, but all of the other crime prevention activities, such as block clubs, citizen patrols, and building design and Iighting review, atlow a continuum of feedback with the resultant planning which occurs. All of the specific instances noted above point to the need for a"value added" police effort within the ciry. Over the last six years, calls for service have not diminished even as the crime rate has flattened. Saint Paulites are involved with their police department. The Citizen's Police Academy has had a waiting list for participants since its inception in 1995. Citizens call the police and they expect the police to respond in the professional interactive method which has become an SPPD hallmazk of service. It is this modern day expectation which underpins the city's quality of life. If Saint Paul is going to be able to compete with the suburbs and with the small towns of Minnesota for working and living in while raising children, then this pzo-active police presence becomes a necessity. And, since the City of Saint Paul is a vacation and commercial destination for the vast majority of out-state Minnesotans and visitors on an annual basis, the high standazd of police activiry, which all have come to expect, must remain at that high consistency. -�- q �.��s9 This proposal is to seek funding to continue the foliowin� overtime projects within the SPPD and to provide the level of service which the State of Minnesota has come to expect from the City of Saint Paul: Ramsey County has a s�anificant Asian population, the vast majority of which are Hmong and live in the City of Saint Paui. Since the iate 198�s, the number of Hmong youth coming into our juvenile conectional proa ams has grown. Unforiunately, it is quite typical that Asian delinquent youth become involved in criminal gangs, violent offenses and the use of weapons. The following data will help to illustrate these trends: New cases or admissions: Asian Juveniles Boys Totem Town Juvenile Detention 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 ----- � 38 27 15 16 30 22 29 35 33 23 126 132 213 167 194 267 271 310 Juvenile Probation 24 16 77 62 78 87 112 130 214 180 The number of southeast Asian youth entering the Ramsey County juvenile probation system in 1996 equaled 12 percent of the total of 150� new juveniles referred to the county system during the year. 140 (78 percent) of these juveniles were Hmong. The other 40 (22 percent) were from other Asian cultures. In 1996, juveniles were involved in 8 out ofthe 23 homicides in Saint Paul. In 1997, 3 of the 2G homicides were committed by juveniles and 4 of the 24 were victims of homicide. In 1995 juveniles accounted for over 58 percent of all arrests for Part I crimes in the city. Despite the decrease in the juvenile population in recent yeazs there has been a 52 percent increase in juvenile arrests. Although, this program is encompassing Ramsey County, these numbers reflect the voiume of the juvenile problem in St. Paul. A list of juveniles with ten of more contacts has been pulled from our data base. These numbezs represent a 7 year period dating frozn June of 1990 through June of 1998. Of these juveniles, who aze currently stili under the age of 18 years old, 112 have accounted for 1972 contacts in the juvenile office. They range from having 37 to 13 contacts each in this time period. Another 198 juveniles account for 2120 contacts and have 12 to 10 contacts each. The Juvenile Unit has handled 60,787 cases in this same time period. From this number the Juvenile Unit has chazged 55,456 juveniles. Tlus number reflects varying degrees of action from court appearances to referrals to diversion programs. Of that number 21,180 cases have been cleared by arrest. (�TOte, the cleared by arrest number reflect juveniles that may have been charged with multiple offenses.) -4- GrY-�o�9 A study was done by the Orange County Probation Department in Califomia in 1994. This study showed that �0 percent o£ the first time offenders did not commit further crimes as juveniles. It did show that 8 percent became chronic re-offenders, committin� at least three and up to 14 more crimes or probation violations while still juveniles. This small �roup of re-offenders were responsible for more than 50 percent of the repeat business faced by the juvenile system. Although, a study has not been done in Ramsey County, it is believed that the problem is the same percentage wise and increasing. The 8 percent is the number that we are trying to identify and take the approximate action w�th. Through intensive probation and intervention we hope to modify behavior and offer family support. A portion of the overtime funds will be used to continue to staff this Enhanced Probation Pilot Project, a collaborative effort with Ramsey County Community Corrections. The Enhanced Probation Pilot Project pairs probation officers with police officers to make home visits to selected juvenile probationers to verify ttaat they are not participating in prohibited activities. A unique facet of this local application is that Ramsey County judges are now making a condition of many probations that the subject may have "no contact with known gang members". Enforcing these probation conditions should have an impact on the most active gang members who aze also within the defined group of most violent. This is the first time that the back end of the criminal justice system, corrections, will become a problem solver with the front end, law enforcement. Community partners in this project include Hmong American Partnership, Peem Psheej (Struggle for success), Lao Family of Minnesota, United Cambodian Association of Minnesota, African Family Services Out Patient Treahnent, Days consequence Program, New Connections, Big Brothers, AA, Wilders Vietnamese Refugee Program, and La Opportunidad Hispanic Families for Peace. An intensified effort to stem the flow of illegal narcotics via use of the Canine Unit's detector dog program. These officers and their canine partners trained in narcotics interdiction tactics would avail themselves on an overtime basis to those locations where illegal narcotics enfer Saint Paul. Potential locations include the train and bus depots, both airports, Federal Express offices, UPS distribution centers, and the U.S. Postal Service branches. Additionally, the Canine Unit's patrol dogs would be used to supplement those officers from the FORCE Unit who are involved in the arrest of street level drug dealers. Patrol dogs would be used to prevent the escape of suspects, the pursuit and search of suspects, the apprehension of suspects, and to protect police officers who aze perfomung drug enforcement activities. They would also assist officers in the recovery of drugs and cunency. The canine officers would be assigned to the FORCE Unit and work under that uniYs direction for this type of concentrated detail. To continue the truancy program. The Ramsey Counry Truancy and Curfew Center is a collaborative effort of more than 20 private and public non-profit organizations. Juvenile crime is a serious issue in Minnesota and Ramsey County. Whlle Minnesota is relatively safe when compared to other states, juvenile arrests for criminal offenses increased 10.5 percent between 1995 and 1996. Juveniles accounted for 30 percent of all arrests in 1996 including 49 percent of Part I offenses (serious crimes). In Saint Paul in 1996, juveniles -5- qg -��'� were involved in 8 out of the 23 homicides in Saint Paul. In 1997, 3 of the 24 homicides were committed by juveniles and 4 of the 24 were victims of homicide. In 1995 juveniles accounted for over 58 percent of all arrests for Part I crimes in the city. Despite the decrease in the juvenile population in recent years there has been a 52 percent increase in juvenile arrests. During the 1997-98 school yeaz, the center serviced appro�mately 2,000 students. This was an increase of 141 percent over the nwnber served by the attendance center in the 1994-95 school yeaz. Students apprehended by law enforcement officers comprised 71 percent of the students involved. Previous efforts over the last three yeazs have reduced the number of daytime burglaries, problems at schools at dismissal time and has also reduced the high incidence of ca11s for service between 2:0� to 4:OOPM. This ongoing collaboration consisting of the Saint Paul School District, Saint Paul Police suburban school districts, various departments of Ramsey County, suburban law enforcement, and non-profit agencies such as the Youth Service Bureau, has now completed three academic years of this project with the last academic year having the truancy effort countywide. The relationship to juvenile crime, while higher during after school hours, remains very high during the curfew hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. weekdays and midnight to 6 a.m. weekends. The FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System for 1991-92 found that one in six of all violent juvenile crimes occurred these hours. Youth out after curfew aze far more likely to become viciims of crune than an elderly person. Between June 12, 1996, and Apri15, 1997, the Curfew center served 1,382 youth ranging from 8 to 17 yeazs of age. Eighry percent of those arrests occurred in Saint Paul. From June of 1997 to June of 1998, 1560 arrests were made for curfew violations in the City of Saint Paul. • In 1997 there were 1228 dischazge of a firearm calls in the city. These discharge calls represent more than three shots every day being reported to the police. In addition to these discharge calls, well over 50 percent of the homicides in the city were committed with firearms. A continuation of the gun suppression program in those azeas of the city where there is a high concentration of gangs and a history of gun activity. There is no more dangerous a combination than gangs and guns. This gun suppression program is aimed at reducing the number of With youth's propensity of impulsive behavior and their commonly held belief that tragedy will not happen to them, youth as perpetrators and as victims aze experiencing an epidemic of violence. • To increase a visible police presence in the city's retail and coinmercial azeas in order to promote an uninterrupted business climate for shoppers and business owners. Specific areas of concern would be 1) the pickpocket detail which can be called out when there have been reports of this activity, 2) officers patrolling municipal ramps when there are special events attracting out of town visitors who are not familiar with the city. From July 1, 1997 to July 1, 1998, the downtown area reported 3606 incidents which included 629 thefts. Horse patrol officers will be used to supplement this effort in high visibility retail and commercial azeas. • To allow the Neighborhood Service Area Officer to continue to work on specific problems in selected neighborhoods using the NSA concept to address problems which � a� � -�059 would benefit from this more involved effort. Examples would include problem properties, gaffiti, neighborhood events, and theft epidemics. In 1997, the City of Saint Paul experienced 21,526 offenses, compazed to 21,393 in 1996. These NSA projects are designed to make an impact on the quality of life and crime rate in the ciry. Officers would be asked to desi� a proa am in which they would be pernutted to expend additional patrol hours to address a specific NSA concem. The pro�am would consist of two components, a pro-active approach to the problem during regularly assigned hours through the use of normal on-duty discrerionary patrol time, and secondly, an overtime status component in which officers would be able to work designated overtime hours in which their time is specifically dedicated to address the identified concern. O�cers would also be required to develop a specific program objective and submit a written proposal to the district command staff in wkuch they would delineate their program, identify specific program objectives and identify a means to measure results. Proposals submitted would be evaluated, prioritized and approved by the Dish Commander with input from both patrol and investigate Lieutenants. The NSA enhancement program would also be available to each of the districYs investigative units. Sergeant-Investigators would be asked to develop programs which are designed to address specific district crime problems which come to theit attention in the course of the conduct of cximinal investigations. Programs developed by Sergeant- Investigators would have the same requirements for a written proposal with specific measurable objectives and evaluation. Patrol dogs wili be used to supplement those officers from the patrol districts who aze involved in the neighborhood service area projects. These canine teams will be used to prevent the escape of suspects, pursue and search for suspects, apprehend suspects, and protect police officers who are performing police functions. District concerns which might be addressed under this program would include pro-active intervention to deal with the annual problem of sorority and fraternity parties in the vicinity of the ciry's colleges and universities, surveillance, projects to deter theft from autos in the city's parks, and problem residences. To continue to focus on University Avenue by providing sufficient officers to work weekend traffic details to contend with the unique experiences of the "street rod" phenomena and the accompanying concern for pedestrian safety and community concerns for the resulting noise and disruption. This would allow the Western District to police this activity without requiring the assistance of patrols from both Central and Eastem Districts. From July 1, 1997, to July 1, 1998, 236 traffic incidents were reported and dealt with by the police. To select and enforce specific azeas for traffic enforcement. Certain city streets have a high incidence of violations along with a high accident rate. These include White Bear 7- q�-�os9 Avenue, Maryland Avenue, Snelling Avenue, University Avenue, Rice Street and Dale Street. The amount of traffic and violations of speed along these streets have increased so that they have become major problems for theiz surrounding neighborhoods. In 1997, 10 of 12 fatal accidents in the city were pedestrians. By increasin� traffic patrols on these streets, the safety of both caz and pedestrian tr�c can be assured. PROJECT EVALUATION The above-mentioned examples of how the SPPD would expend overtime funding would necessitate the followin� specialized approaches in evaluating each project: Collaboration with Ramsey County Community Correction and other partners on the Enhanced Probation Pilot Project. Outcome: Minimize criminal activity by youth within the community. We wiil monitor the success rate of the persons placed on this program. This will be measured by their reduced police contacts and completion of this program. Also, we will monitor to show that they have completed their education and/or have obtained a job to become productive member of the community. This effort wi11 be measured by a periodic reports of the probation officers on the progress of their probationers. By keeping adjudicated youth away from other at- risk gang members, there is an expectation that gang activity wili decrease. • Canine Unit. Outcome: Canine Unit detector dogs will retrieve street drugs and assist in the confrontation with the street level drug dealer. The Canine Unit will also assist the FORCE Unit and assist in FORCE Unit activities. The amount of street drugs that the SPPD Canine Unit detector dogs can retrieve will be calculated and reported. This assault on the street level drug dealer with a concentrated police presence will alleviate the street drug problem on Saint Paul's streets and in its neighborhoods. Interaction and involvement of the Canine Unit with FORCE Unit activities will be quantified and analyzed periodically to see if this parknership has been effective in assisting FORCE. • Curfew. Outeome: Curfew violators will be stopped and tagged so that there is a diminution of youthful perpetrators and victims on Saint Paul's streets. The Ramsey Connty Truancy and Curfew Collaboration has been an on-going effort between law enforcement and youth-focused diversion programs for over three years. The collaboration is intent on making the effort a permanent program available for all governmental units in Ramsey County. By having one location which is staffed and with professional intake workers for assistance, the curfew violator will be able to access a variety of referral resources. The collaboration meets monthly and has an on-�oing evaluation component with Wilder Research. The SPPD curfew effort will generate regulaz reports which will be included within the larger collaboration. Truancy. Outcome: Truancy violators will be stopped and tagged so that there is a diminntion of truancy violators. Truancy, the other half of the Ramsey County Truancy and Curfew Collaboration has been the main focus of the collaboration and has been in -$- �iY -Ia'S9 operation for the last three academic yeats. As analysis of the project has evolved over those years, the information has been instructive to both the evaluators and to the collaborative members. Due to the presence of the Youth Service Bureau on both program components (truancy and curfew) and its involvement in other youth crisis services, YSB has been able to establish a profile of the acting out youth. What is emerging is a youth who is both a truant and curfew violator, and in some cases, a youth who has been an need of other social services. As this coordination of information goes forvaazd, the acting out youth will be able to be identified at an eazlier stage in dysfunction and remedial resources can be utilized in returning the youth to a healthier function level. • Gun Suppression. Outcome: To reduce the number of handguns that are in the City of Saint Paul. There has been success in training officers in techniques to retrieve illegal guns, especially those that aze in the possession of youth. The leading cause of death in teenagers (ages 15 through 24) has always been the result of violence from unintentional accident.' The Center for Disease Control has now classified violent death of youth by means of homicide as the second leading cause and classifies it as within epidemic numbers. The presence and use of the gun escalates�e confrontation into a tragedy. The officers will be able to document those guns which have been confiscated by utilizing gun suppression techniques. • Police Presence in Retail Areas. Outcome: To allow for the flow of commerce without disruption or the perspective of lack of safety in the retail areas. With the Mall of America having been named the number one vacation destination in the nation, the metropolitan commercial businesses have benefitted from this amaction. The twin cities aze now an international destination and the spillover for all kinds of businesses has been a positive outcome which was not at first expected. One of the hallmarks of the retail attraction in Minnesota is the overall safety of the area. Saint Paul must maintain this high level of safety, cleanliness and comfort in its shopping areas if its businesses are to thrive. Grand Avenue, the various shopping centers such as Hillcrest Shopping Center, Sunray Center, Highland and Payne Avenue have a need for an on-going visible police presence. The downtown azea also has rebounded from an almost non-existent retail energy. This rebound is due to a major commitment of the SPPD's downtown patrol. The continuance of this zero tolerance effort is necessary for the immediate future as Saint Paul reclaims its place as a retail center. Officers engaged in overtime patrol will document their involvement in the cessation of those types of offenses which detract from a positive shopping experience such as purse snatching, loitering, panhandling, public urination, public drunkenness, and other negative qualify of life incidents. • Neighborhood Service Area. Outcome: To expand the effectiveness of the current NSA program. Individual officer use of available overtime for each NSA enhancement program would be audited routinely with interim reporting to district staf£personnel. A district lieutenani would be assigned oversaght responsibility and report the progress or lack of progress on a regular basis to the District Commander. The District commander would evaluate and d'arect continuation or termination of each program based upon a personal assessment of the success of the program. Regulaz reports on this enhancement would be generated. � �B �°' University Avenue "Street Rods" Detail. Oufcome: To be able to police the "Street Rods" event without drawing police strength from the two other districts. Regulaz reports by those working this overtime detail will provide the data necessary to adjust staffing levels. The proa am initially would be to assign four officers each Friday and Saturday through the conclusion of the state fair which is the annual even which operates as a magnet for the street rod owners. T`hrou�h the month of September, the overtime officers would be reduced to rivo each night. Adjustments would be made if the situation called for it. This enforcement effort makes the area a safer place and it increases the departments presence. Increased traffic enforcement. Outcome: To increase the number of traffic violation tags written. Officers will be assia ed to the high accident rate areas at peak tr�c times to ensure increased safety for both pedestrians and motorists. 'National Center for Health Statistics, Health, US, 1996 through 1997 and Injury Chartbook. Hyattsville, MD. 1997. iL�E ��.�o�q 4 Page 4 FY99 COMMUNITY-0RIENTED POLICING {COPS) OVERTINE GRANTS PROGRAM ag .�a�� PROJECT EVALUATION The above-mentioned examples of how the SPPD would expend overtime funding would necessitate the following specialized approaches in evaluatin� each project: Collaboration with Ramsey County Community Correction and other partners on the Enhanced Probation Pilot Project. Outcome: Minimize criminal activity by youth within the community. We will monitor the success rafe of the persons placed on this program. This will be measured by their reduced police contacts and completion of this program. Also, we will monitor to show that they have completed their education and/or have obtained a job to become productive member of the community. This effort will be measured by a periodic reports of the probation officers on the progress of their probationers. By keeping adjudicated youth away from other at- risk gang members, there is an expectation that gang activity will decrease. Canine Unit. Outcome: Canine Unit detector dogs will retrieve street drugs and assist in the confrontation with the street level drug dealer. The Canine Unit will also assist the FORCE Unit and assist in FORCE Unit activities. The amount of street drugs that the SPPD Canine Unit detector dogs can retrieve will be calculated and reported. This assault on the street level drug dealer with a concentrated pofice presence will alleviate the street drug problem on Saint Paul's streets and in its neighborhoods. Interaction and involvement of the Canine Unit with FORCE Unit activities will be quantified and analyzed periodically to see if this partnership has been effective in assisting FORCE. Curfew. Outcome: Curfew violators wili be stopped and tagged so that there is a diminution of youthful perpetrators and victims on Saint PauPs streets. The Ramsey County Truancy and Curfew Collaboration has been an on-going effort between law enforcement and youth-focused diversion programs for over three yeazs. The collaboration is intent on making the effort a permanent program available for all governmental units in Ramsey County. By having one location which is staffed and with professional intake workers for assistance, the curfew violator will be able to access a variety of referral resources. The collaboration meets monthly and has an on-going evaluation component with Wilder Research. The SPPD curfew effort will generate regular reports which will be included within the larger collaboration. Truancy. Outcome: Truancy violators will be stopped and tagged so that there is a diminution of truancy violators. Truancy, the other half of the Ramsey County Truancy and Curfew Collaboration has been the main focus of the collaboration and has been in operation for the last three academic yeazs. As analysis of the project has evolved over those years, the information has been instructive to both the evaluators and to the collaborative members. Due to the presence of the Youth Service Bureau on both program components (truancy and curfew) and its involvement in other youth crisis services, YSB has been able to establish a profile of the acting out youth. What is emerging is a youth who is both a truant and curfew violator, and in some cases, a youth who has been in need of other social services. As this coordination of information goes -8- �� .�o�q forwazd, the acting out youth will be able to be identified at an earlier stage in dysfunction and remedial resources can be utilized in retuming the youth to a healthier function level. • Gun Suppression. Outcome: To reduce the number of handguns that are in the City of Saint Paul. There has been success in training officers in techniques to rehieve illegal guns, especially those that aze in the possession of youth. The leading cause of death in teenagers (ages 15 through 24) has always been the result of violence from unintentional accident.' The Center for Disease Control has now classified violent death of youth by means of homicide as the second leading cause and classifies it as within epidemic numbers. "I'he presence and use of the gun escalates a confrontation into a tragedy. The officers will be able to document those guns which have been confiscated by utilizing gun suppression techniques. • Police Presence in Retail Areas. Outcome: To allow for the flow of commerce without disruption or the perspective of lack of safety in the retail areas. With the Mall of America having been named the number one vacation destination in the nation, the metropolitan commercial businesses have benefitted from this attracfion. The twin cities are now an intemational destination and the spillover for all kinds of businesses has been a positive outcome which was not at first expected. One of the hallmarks of the retail attraction in Minnesota is the overall safety of the area. Saint Paul must maintain this high level of safety, cleanliness and comfort in its shopping areas if its businesses are to thrive. Grand Avenue, the various shopping centers such as Hillcrest Shopping Center, Sunray Center, Highland and Payne Avenue have a need for an on-going visible police presence. The downtown azea also has rebounded from an almost non-existent retail energy. This rebound is due to a major commihnent of the SPPD's downtown patrol. The continuance of this zero tolerance effort is necessary for the immediate future as Saint Paul reclaims $s place as a retail center. O�cers engaged in overtime patrol will document their involvement in the cessation of those types of offenses which detract from a positive shopping experience such as purse snatching, loitering, panhandling, public urination, public drunkenness, and other negative qualify of life incidents. Neighborhood Service Area. Outcome: To expand the effectiveness of the current NSA program. Individual officer use of available overtime for each NSA enhancement program would be audited routinely with interim reporting to district staff personnel. A disfrict lieutenant would be assigned oversight responsibility and report the progress or lack of progress on a regulaz basis to the Aistrlct Commander. The District commander would evaluate and direct continuation or termination of each program based upon a personal assessment of the success of the program. Regulaz reports on this enhancement would be generated. University Avenue "Street Rods" Detail. Outcome: To be able to police the "Street Rods" event without drawing police strength from the two other districts. Regular reports by those working this overtime detail will provide the data necessary to ad}ust staffing levels. The program initially would be to assign four officers each Friday and Saturday through the conclusion of the state fair which is the annual even which operates as a magnet for the street rod owners. Through the month of September, the overtime 62 ��.�o�, officers would be reduced to two each night. Adjushnents would be made if the situation called for it. This enforcement effort makes the azea a safer place and it increases the departments presence. Increased traffic enforcement. Outcome: To increase the number of traffic violafion tags written. Officers will be assigned to the high accident rate azeas at peak traffic tunes to ensure increased safety for both pedestrians and motorists. 'National Center for Health Statistics, Health, US, 1996 through 1997 and Injury Chartbook. Hyattsville, iVID. 1997. -10- APPLICANI' AGENCY: St. Pau1 Police Department �� r � 5 Average Salary Used to Compute Grant Request OT Rate 35.27 Number of Officers �ai.11 vary with staff availability Amount of Overtime per Week 68 hours Number of Weeks 52 TOTAT. BLIDGET REQLTEST � 125 , 000 00 STATE AGENCI` US& ONLY GCN - DATfi :-'. . Page 5 FY99 COMMUNiTY-OftIENTED POLICING (COPS) OVERTIME GRANTS PROGRAM ORIGINAi. Presented By: OF SAINT PAUL, NIINNESOTA RESOLUTION �J Referred To: Committee:Date: 1 WHEREAS, the Saint Paul Police Department has received a grant from the Minnesota Department 2 of Public Safety, in the amount of $125,000 for police overtime, for the period October 1, 1998 to 3 September 30,1999, and 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 WHEREAS, the Department of Public Safety requests a designated authority for the execufion of agreements, and RESOLVED, that the Saint Paul City Council accept this grant award for $125,000 for police overtime and authorizes Chief William Finney, to enter into an agreement with the Department of Public Safety . 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Adopted by Council: Date: Requested by Council File # — /03 Green Sheet ' i DEPARTMINUOFFICNCOUNCIL Po2ice Departmer=t CON�AC7 PFRSON 8 PHONE Wiliiam Firr.ev 2 DATEINRWTED 11/9/98 �� TOTAL # OF SIGNATURE PAGES GREEN SHEET No � �.,,�,��.� � �� ..,.��d� 0��- ❑.«�.�,��. ❑,.�.�m �.,,w.��,,,m..�,� ❑ (CLIP ALL LOCATIONS FOR SIGNATURE) �� 61045 Acceptar.ce of Overtime Grar,t for $125,000 and authorizatior: of CHief rirr:e}� to accept ar,d ex�end the funds. Funds to be exper:ded ir, 1999. PLANNING CAMMISSION CIB CAMMRTEE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Has fhis persoNfirm ever vrorked under a wnhad far Nis tlepartmenl'7 VES NO Has ihis persoNfirtn ever been a city employce7 YES NO Does this person/firm possess a sldll not normaltypossessad by arry curteM city employee? YES NO Is this peisat�rtn a farpeted vendo? YES NO �F�lain all Yes answets on separate sheet arM akach to 9reen sheet TIATING PRO&,EM ISSUE, OPPORTUMTY (Who, What, When, Where, Why) The Minr.esota State Legislature, through the Department of Pubiic Safety, has awarded the Saint Pau1 Police Department an Overtime Grant in the amount of $125,000. DPS procedure requires that the goverr,ing body name a person and exper.d [he funds. NANTAGESIFAPPROVED The Saint Paul Police Departmer.t wi11 receive a grant for Overtime in the amount of $125,000•00 a � �� 3'�,.�.�':ei �...�'� None The Saint Paul Police Departmeet will not have the Overtime funding necessary for many of the Community Policir,g ir,itiatives which have made Sair.t Paul a safe city. 125,000 COST/REVENUE BUDfiEfED (GRCLE ON� YES NO souece State of MN Department of Public Safy��riymNwsea Please see the attached information for detail of exper�i�trtta�Er�.f funds. CI�CI [I �I2�� ^i�:'G�T �'r�.�'sb�?( NOV 16 1998 ��V MAYOR'S OFFICE q�-tos9 1 This form is to be used as the cover sheet for our ant a iicauon. CONTRACTING AGENCY: Use your legal name and Project Director Name � Bro £uIl address. This is the fiscal agent with whom the grant agreement will be esecuted. 6 51 2 9 2-3 507 Telephone Number ( ) St. Pau1 Police Department 100 E. llth Street FaY Number ( 651 ) 292-3542 Saint Pau1, MN 55101 CONTACI' MAILING ADDRESS: (If different than Contact Name: above) Amy Brown Telephone Number ( 651 ) 292-3507 Fax Number ( 651 ) 292-3542 PROJECT SERVICE ARFA (Counties/Cities) Project Start Date: Project End Date: � City of Saint Pau1 10/1/98 9/30/99 Grant a�eements wili not be pracessed without these MN Tax ID # Federal Empioyee ID # numbers: N/A 416005 5 21 z'o�,� cnarva r I � i25,000 ° .00 Project Summary - 50 words or less in the space below: The Saint Paul Police Uepartnent proposes to enhapce police services in the following areas: enhanced probation, detector d9g program, curfew and truancy, gun suppression, neighborhood service areas, retail areas, traffic enforcement. Page t FY99 COMMUNITY-ORIENTED POLICING (COPS) CVERTIME GRANTS PROGRAM Q�' z St. Pau1, MN 55101 2Authorized Official I,egal Name StreeY - Ciiy - Zip . Phone William K. Finney 100 E. lith Street 651 292-3588 St. Pau1 MN 55101 � ) 3.Operat�ng Agency (;f different from # I) Legal Name Street - City - Zip Phone � ) 4.Contact Person for further information on application Legai I�ame Streee - City - Zip Phone Amy Brown 100 E. 11th Street 651 292-3507 St. Paul, MN 55201 � ) 5. I cerfify that the information rontained herein is true and accyrate'to the best of my knowled�e and that I submit this application on behalf of the applicant agenc�+-� Signature of Authorized Official: T`itle: Ghief of Police ,� Date: g�4�gg Page 2 FY99 COMMUNITY-ORIENTED POLICING {COPS) OVERTIFAE GRANTS PROGRAM 1_ Applicafion Agency (with which contract is to be ececuted) a�-�o�9 3 (1) Describe the project you hope to implement (specifically state the problem you will address). (2) Describe the se.rvices you intend to provide and the population you will serve (identify the specific geographic location and why you chose the siie). (3) DesQibe how the need for this project was identified and how this program will address that need (include facts on crime demographics for the target azea). {4) Describe the planning process you propose to implement (Provide spe�c information about the individuals and organizations that actively helped in the planning process). (�) If other organizations will help provide services, describe their role. You may ese up to ten (10) attachment pages to support this narrative. Attached. Page 3 FY99 COMMUNIIY-ORIENTED POLICING (COPS) OVERTIM'c GRANTS PROGRAM p�� - ��1 ECT OVERVIEW COMMIJNITY ORIENTED POLICING GRANT: OVERTIME The City of Saint Paul, home of the Minnesota State Capitol, has a population of 272 235. Smaller than its twin sister city of Minueapolis which has a population of 368,383, Saint Paul has a personality which also differs from its sister city. Both cities occupy approximately 55 squaze miles. However, in Saint Paul, the energy seems to be in the city's nei�hborhoods whereas in Minneapolis the energy appears to be in its downtown retail and business district. These differences play out over and over each day as residents and visitors go about their business and activities in each of the cities. Saint Paulites like their city quiet. They like the orderliness of a well run municipal govemment. Expectations of delivery are so high that elected officials have been looking for ways to make government seem to disappear from people's lives while still maintaining the procedures which result in the city's functioning. Annually 1.2 million non-business visitors come to Saint Paul to see the world class attractions which include: the Science Museum, the Children's Museum, the Ordway Music Theatre, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra,local festivals, unique shops in channing neighborhoods, government buildings such as the Capitol and the Minnesota History Center, and instihxtions such as the Cathedral. Even the city's streets get their due with visitors driving up and down Summit Avenue, the longest stretch of Victorian residences in the United States, and with Grand Avenue noted as one of the country's most lucrative retail streets. All of this didn't just happen. It happened because of the city's underlying modus operandi which is, simply put, if one is going to do something, do it well. A significant partner in all of this has been the Saint Paul Police Department (SPPD). Over the past six years, the SPPD has been at the forefront of partnership with the city in making the city a quality place to live. The Saint Paul Police Departnient instituted Community Policing (COP) department-wide upon the appointment of Chief Finney in July of 1992. It has been six years since Chief Finney has led the community-policing effort. With the six year milestone here, the department can look back and review where the department has been and more specifically, how successful the community policing programs have been in order to combat the vagaries of crime. Like most things involved with the human condition, the incidence and types of crime also ebbs and flows. Drive-by shootings did not occur ten years ago but aze a fact of life in our violence-prone society. The incidence of drive-by shootings can never be taken lightly and thus the incident still ranks high on the police priority listing for calls for service. These and other late twentieth cenhuy crime examples continue to be labor intensive issues for law enforcement personnel. Six years ago truancy and curfew status offenses were not considered serious and were seemingly left over indicators of a more permissive society. Three yeazs ago a truancy and curfew center was started to initiate a program and to analyze the effects of tnzancy and curfew and how extensive the problem was. The schools, police and other community agencies began to realize how debilitatin� truancy was to the student, the student's family and to the business community. The program has just completed its third year with ever expanding numbers of both truants and curfew violators. -1- a � -t o� More traffic accidents aze being reported because of current insurance laws and requirements. More traffic accidents are occurring because there are simply more cazs on Saint Paul's streets and residents aze driving more miles annually than ever before. Fatalities may not be increasing, but some of the credit here must be given to the medical state of art at Regions HospitaPs emer�ency trauma room and the concomitant trainin� of medical staff. The explosion of guns upon the urban scene, especially the number of guns being used by youth, is a phenomenon that was not part of the crime scene five yeazs ago. "I`he need to e�tract fireazms out of our violent society has become critical. The return of the "beat cop", the storefront, the substation and other community assignments has culminated in the Neighborhood Service Area (NSA) and now every patrol officer and sergeant has been assigned to an NSA. This identification of the individual o�cer to a particulaz geographic assignment in place of a shift assignment has given the community the means to interact with each officer on an on-going basis, and, allows the officer to develop a more in-depth execution of law enforcement and peace keeping duties. Saint Paul has spent the last six years attempting to stem the tide of financial resources leaving the city and shoring up its neighborhoods so that there can be a positive quality of life including the local delivery of services which sma11 businesses provide. The SPPD has developed partnerships with business associations, shopping centers and other commercial centers in order to a11ow shoppers, shop keepers, and the community as a whole to continue to transact the daily business of commerce. An increased presence of beat officers throughout the city in the commercial azeas has provided the foundation for the resurgence which has been building throughout the city. It has been said that Saint Paul has more civiccelebrations than any other city of its size. From Grand Old Day - the lazgest on-day festival in the United States - to the Harvest Festival Parade which has been delighting Eastsiders for the past seventy-five years, the quality and number of Saint Paul's special events and neighborhood celebrations are the shining crown of the city's charming personality and contributes to making it one of the more colorful lazge cities throughout the country. T`he neighborhood's special events rely on the presence of the SPPD to allow people to have a comfort level so that even when one is in the midst of the 300,000 participants of Grand Old Day, one can spot the police officer's hat in the crowd and be reassured that all has been planned out. Because of this involvement with the neighborhoods, after-event reports often cite that no disturbances occurred during the event. -2- q( -to�� A particular special event in the city has been the concentration and parading of old cazs and street rods along specified routes in the city, particulazly University and Snelling Avenues. The cazs attract onlookers and, because they are constantly moving back and forth along the streets, the situation causes more disruption than if they were stationery. The investment by the owners of the cars is considerable so that the safety and relarive quiet of Saint Paul streets becomes an extremely attractive place to parade their cazs and network with other classic car aficionados. Events such as this contribute to the overall vitality of the city. The Canine Unit has diversified over the past six yeazs and now include detector dogs which are trained to sniff out illegal nazcotics. Due to the increasing amount of street level narcotics activity which changes location like water going around an obstacle, strategies to counteract this illegal mazket aze constantly being adjusted. The detector dogs offer the SPPD the ability to find illegal drugs not only during searches, but by interrupting the drug flow at points of contact such as train and bus depots, the airport, and all of the ovemight delivery services such as UPS, Federal Express and the US Postal Service. Community involvement since the inception of Saint Paul's seventeen district planning councils, the local planning which is on-going in the city epitomizes the collaborative nature of Saint Paul. SPPD's three district commanders hold regular meetings with citizens and neighborhood leaders are on a first name basis with the command staf£ Out of this regular and intensive interaction, the ability to fine tune both la�v enforcement and peacekeeping special projects arise. Not only are there regular district commander meetings, but all of the other crime prevention activities, such as block clubs, citizen patrols, and building design and Iighting review, atlow a continuum of feedback with the resultant planning which occurs. All of the specific instances noted above point to the need for a"value added" police effort within the ciry. Over the last six years, calls for service have not diminished even as the crime rate has flattened. Saint Paulites are involved with their police department. The Citizen's Police Academy has had a waiting list for participants since its inception in 1995. Citizens call the police and they expect the police to respond in the professional interactive method which has become an SPPD hallmazk of service. It is this modern day expectation which underpins the city's quality of life. If Saint Paul is going to be able to compete with the suburbs and with the small towns of Minnesota for working and living in while raising children, then this pzo-active police presence becomes a necessity. And, since the City of Saint Paul is a vacation and commercial destination for the vast majority of out-state Minnesotans and visitors on an annual basis, the high standazd of police activiry, which all have come to expect, must remain at that high consistency. -�- q �.��s9 This proposal is to seek funding to continue the foliowin� overtime projects within the SPPD and to provide the level of service which the State of Minnesota has come to expect from the City of Saint Paul: Ramsey County has a s�anificant Asian population, the vast majority of which are Hmong and live in the City of Saint Paui. Since the iate 198�s, the number of Hmong youth coming into our juvenile conectional proa ams has grown. Unforiunately, it is quite typical that Asian delinquent youth become involved in criminal gangs, violent offenses and the use of weapons. The following data will help to illustrate these trends: New cases or admissions: Asian Juveniles Boys Totem Town Juvenile Detention 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 ----- � 38 27 15 16 30 22 29 35 33 23 126 132 213 167 194 267 271 310 Juvenile Probation 24 16 77 62 78 87 112 130 214 180 The number of southeast Asian youth entering the Ramsey County juvenile probation system in 1996 equaled 12 percent of the total of 150� new juveniles referred to the county system during the year. 140 (78 percent) of these juveniles were Hmong. The other 40 (22 percent) were from other Asian cultures. In 1996, juveniles were involved in 8 out ofthe 23 homicides in Saint Paul. In 1997, 3 of the 2G homicides were committed by juveniles and 4 of the 24 were victims of homicide. In 1995 juveniles accounted for over 58 percent of all arrests for Part I crimes in the city. Despite the decrease in the juvenile population in recent yeazs there has been a 52 percent increase in juvenile arrests. Although, this program is encompassing Ramsey County, these numbers reflect the voiume of the juvenile problem in St. Paul. A list of juveniles with ten of more contacts has been pulled from our data base. These numbezs represent a 7 year period dating frozn June of 1990 through June of 1998. Of these juveniles, who aze currently stili under the age of 18 years old, 112 have accounted for 1972 contacts in the juvenile office. They range from having 37 to 13 contacts each in this time period. Another 198 juveniles account for 2120 contacts and have 12 to 10 contacts each. The Juvenile Unit has handled 60,787 cases in this same time period. From this number the Juvenile Unit has chazged 55,456 juveniles. Tlus number reflects varying degrees of action from court appearances to referrals to diversion programs. Of that number 21,180 cases have been cleared by arrest. (�TOte, the cleared by arrest number reflect juveniles that may have been charged with multiple offenses.) -4- GrY-�o�9 A study was done by the Orange County Probation Department in Califomia in 1994. This study showed that �0 percent o£ the first time offenders did not commit further crimes as juveniles. It did show that 8 percent became chronic re-offenders, committin� at least three and up to 14 more crimes or probation violations while still juveniles. This small �roup of re-offenders were responsible for more than 50 percent of the repeat business faced by the juvenile system. Although, a study has not been done in Ramsey County, it is believed that the problem is the same percentage wise and increasing. The 8 percent is the number that we are trying to identify and take the approximate action w�th. Through intensive probation and intervention we hope to modify behavior and offer family support. A portion of the overtime funds will be used to continue to staff this Enhanced Probation Pilot Project, a collaborative effort with Ramsey County Community Corrections. The Enhanced Probation Pilot Project pairs probation officers with police officers to make home visits to selected juvenile probationers to verify ttaat they are not participating in prohibited activities. A unique facet of this local application is that Ramsey County judges are now making a condition of many probations that the subject may have "no contact with known gang members". Enforcing these probation conditions should have an impact on the most active gang members who aze also within the defined group of most violent. This is the first time that the back end of the criminal justice system, corrections, will become a problem solver with the front end, law enforcement. Community partners in this project include Hmong American Partnership, Peem Psheej (Struggle for success), Lao Family of Minnesota, United Cambodian Association of Minnesota, African Family Services Out Patient Treahnent, Days consequence Program, New Connections, Big Brothers, AA, Wilders Vietnamese Refugee Program, and La Opportunidad Hispanic Families for Peace. An intensified effort to stem the flow of illegal narcotics via use of the Canine Unit's detector dog program. These officers and their canine partners trained in narcotics interdiction tactics would avail themselves on an overtime basis to those locations where illegal narcotics enfer Saint Paul. Potential locations include the train and bus depots, both airports, Federal Express offices, UPS distribution centers, and the U.S. Postal Service branches. Additionally, the Canine Unit's patrol dogs would be used to supplement those officers from the FORCE Unit who are involved in the arrest of street level drug dealers. Patrol dogs would be used to prevent the escape of suspects, the pursuit and search of suspects, the apprehension of suspects, and to protect police officers who aze perfomung drug enforcement activities. They would also assist officers in the recovery of drugs and cunency. The canine officers would be assigned to the FORCE Unit and work under that uniYs direction for this type of concentrated detail. To continue the truancy program. The Ramsey Counry Truancy and Curfew Center is a collaborative effort of more than 20 private and public non-profit organizations. Juvenile crime is a serious issue in Minnesota and Ramsey County. Whlle Minnesota is relatively safe when compared to other states, juvenile arrests for criminal offenses increased 10.5 percent between 1995 and 1996. Juveniles accounted for 30 percent of all arrests in 1996 including 49 percent of Part I offenses (serious crimes). In Saint Paul in 1996, juveniles -5- qg -��'� were involved in 8 out of the 23 homicides in Saint Paul. In 1997, 3 of the 24 homicides were committed by juveniles and 4 of the 24 were victims of homicide. In 1995 juveniles accounted for over 58 percent of all arrests for Part I crimes in the city. Despite the decrease in the juvenile population in recent years there has been a 52 percent increase in juvenile arrests. During the 1997-98 school yeaz, the center serviced appro�mately 2,000 students. This was an increase of 141 percent over the nwnber served by the attendance center in the 1994-95 school yeaz. Students apprehended by law enforcement officers comprised 71 percent of the students involved. Previous efforts over the last three yeazs have reduced the number of daytime burglaries, problems at schools at dismissal time and has also reduced the high incidence of ca11s for service between 2:0� to 4:OOPM. This ongoing collaboration consisting of the Saint Paul School District, Saint Paul Police suburban school districts, various departments of Ramsey County, suburban law enforcement, and non-profit agencies such as the Youth Service Bureau, has now completed three academic years of this project with the last academic year having the truancy effort countywide. The relationship to juvenile crime, while higher during after school hours, remains very high during the curfew hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. weekdays and midnight to 6 a.m. weekends. The FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System for 1991-92 found that one in six of all violent juvenile crimes occurred these hours. Youth out after curfew aze far more likely to become viciims of crune than an elderly person. Between June 12, 1996, and Apri15, 1997, the Curfew center served 1,382 youth ranging from 8 to 17 yeazs of age. Eighry percent of those arrests occurred in Saint Paul. From June of 1997 to June of 1998, 1560 arrests were made for curfew violations in the City of Saint Paul. • In 1997 there were 1228 dischazge of a firearm calls in the city. These discharge calls represent more than three shots every day being reported to the police. In addition to these discharge calls, well over 50 percent of the homicides in the city were committed with firearms. A continuation of the gun suppression program in those azeas of the city where there is a high concentration of gangs and a history of gun activity. There is no more dangerous a combination than gangs and guns. This gun suppression program is aimed at reducing the number of With youth's propensity of impulsive behavior and their commonly held belief that tragedy will not happen to them, youth as perpetrators and as victims aze experiencing an epidemic of violence. • To increase a visible police presence in the city's retail and coinmercial azeas in order to promote an uninterrupted business climate for shoppers and business owners. Specific areas of concern would be 1) the pickpocket detail which can be called out when there have been reports of this activity, 2) officers patrolling municipal ramps when there are special events attracting out of town visitors who are not familiar with the city. From July 1, 1997 to July 1, 1998, the downtown area reported 3606 incidents which included 629 thefts. Horse patrol officers will be used to supplement this effort in high visibility retail and commercial azeas. • To allow the Neighborhood Service Area Officer to continue to work on specific problems in selected neighborhoods using the NSA concept to address problems which � a� � -�059 would benefit from this more involved effort. Examples would include problem properties, gaffiti, neighborhood events, and theft epidemics. In 1997, the City of Saint Paul experienced 21,526 offenses, compazed to 21,393 in 1996. These NSA projects are designed to make an impact on the quality of life and crime rate in the ciry. Officers would be asked to desi� a proa am in which they would be pernutted to expend additional patrol hours to address a specific NSA concem. The pro�am would consist of two components, a pro-active approach to the problem during regularly assigned hours through the use of normal on-duty discrerionary patrol time, and secondly, an overtime status component in which officers would be able to work designated overtime hours in which their time is specifically dedicated to address the identified concern. O�cers would also be required to develop a specific program objective and submit a written proposal to the district command staff in wkuch they would delineate their program, identify specific program objectives and identify a means to measure results. Proposals submitted would be evaluated, prioritized and approved by the Dish Commander with input from both patrol and investigate Lieutenants. The NSA enhancement program would also be available to each of the districYs investigative units. Sergeant-Investigators would be asked to develop programs which are designed to address specific district crime problems which come to theit attention in the course of the conduct of cximinal investigations. Programs developed by Sergeant- Investigators would have the same requirements for a written proposal with specific measurable objectives and evaluation. Patrol dogs wili be used to supplement those officers from the patrol districts who aze involved in the neighborhood service area projects. These canine teams will be used to prevent the escape of suspects, pursue and search for suspects, apprehend suspects, and protect police officers who are performing police functions. District concerns which might be addressed under this program would include pro-active intervention to deal with the annual problem of sorority and fraternity parties in the vicinity of the ciry's colleges and universities, surveillance, projects to deter theft from autos in the city's parks, and problem residences. To continue to focus on University Avenue by providing sufficient officers to work weekend traffic details to contend with the unique experiences of the "street rod" phenomena and the accompanying concern for pedestrian safety and community concerns for the resulting noise and disruption. This would allow the Western District to police this activity without requiring the assistance of patrols from both Central and Eastem Districts. From July 1, 1997, to July 1, 1998, 236 traffic incidents were reported and dealt with by the police. To select and enforce specific azeas for traffic enforcement. Certain city streets have a high incidence of violations along with a high accident rate. These include White Bear 7- q�-�os9 Avenue, Maryland Avenue, Snelling Avenue, University Avenue, Rice Street and Dale Street. The amount of traffic and violations of speed along these streets have increased so that they have become major problems for theiz surrounding neighborhoods. In 1997, 10 of 12 fatal accidents in the city were pedestrians. By increasin� traffic patrols on these streets, the safety of both caz and pedestrian tr�c can be assured. PROJECT EVALUATION The above-mentioned examples of how the SPPD would expend overtime funding would necessitate the followin� specialized approaches in evaluating each project: Collaboration with Ramsey County Community Correction and other partners on the Enhanced Probation Pilot Project. Outcome: Minimize criminal activity by youth within the community. We wiil monitor the success rate of the persons placed on this program. This will be measured by their reduced police contacts and completion of this program. Also, we will monitor to show that they have completed their education and/or have obtained a job to become productive member of the community. This effort wi11 be measured by a periodic reports of the probation officers on the progress of their probationers. By keeping adjudicated youth away from other at- risk gang members, there is an expectation that gang activity wili decrease. • Canine Unit. Outcome: Canine Unit detector dogs will retrieve street drugs and assist in the confrontation with the street level drug dealer. The Canine Unit will also assist the FORCE Unit and assist in FORCE Unit activities. The amount of street drugs that the SPPD Canine Unit detector dogs can retrieve will be calculated and reported. This assault on the street level drug dealer with a concentrated police presence will alleviate the street drug problem on Saint Paul's streets and in its neighborhoods. Interaction and involvement of the Canine Unit with FORCE Unit activities will be quantified and analyzed periodically to see if this parknership has been effective in assisting FORCE. • Curfew. Outeome: Curfew violators will be stopped and tagged so that there is a diminution of youthful perpetrators and victims on Saint Paul's streets. The Ramsey Connty Truancy and Curfew Collaboration has been an on-going effort between law enforcement and youth-focused diversion programs for over three years. The collaboration is intent on making the effort a permanent program available for all governmental units in Ramsey County. By having one location which is staffed and with professional intake workers for assistance, the curfew violator will be able to access a variety of referral resources. The collaboration meets monthly and has an on-�oing evaluation component with Wilder Research. The SPPD curfew effort will generate regulaz reports which will be included within the larger collaboration. Truancy. Outcome: Truancy violators will be stopped and tagged so that there is a diminntion of truancy violators. Truancy, the other half of the Ramsey County Truancy and Curfew Collaboration has been the main focus of the collaboration and has been in -$- �iY -Ia'S9 operation for the last three academic yeats. As analysis of the project has evolved over those years, the information has been instructive to both the evaluators and to the collaborative members. Due to the presence of the Youth Service Bureau on both program components (truancy and curfew) and its involvement in other youth crisis services, YSB has been able to establish a profile of the acting out youth. What is emerging is a youth who is both a truant and curfew violator, and in some cases, a youth who has been an need of other social services. As this coordination of information goes forvaazd, the acting out youth will be able to be identified at an eazlier stage in dysfunction and remedial resources can be utilized in returning the youth to a healthier function level. • Gun Suppression. Outcome: To reduce the number of handguns that are in the City of Saint Paul. There has been success in training officers in techniques to retrieve illegal guns, especially those that aze in the possession of youth. The leading cause of death in teenagers (ages 15 through 24) has always been the result of violence from unintentional accident.' The Center for Disease Control has now classified violent death of youth by means of homicide as the second leading cause and classifies it as within epidemic numbers. The presence and use of the gun escalates�e confrontation into a tragedy. The officers will be able to document those guns which have been confiscated by utilizing gun suppression techniques. • Police Presence in Retail Areas. Outcome: To allow for the flow of commerce without disruption or the perspective of lack of safety in the retail areas. With the Mall of America having been named the number one vacation destination in the nation, the metropolitan commercial businesses have benefitted from this amaction. The twin cities aze now an international destination and the spillover for all kinds of businesses has been a positive outcome which was not at first expected. One of the hallmarks of the retail attraction in Minnesota is the overall safety of the area. Saint Paul must maintain this high level of safety, cleanliness and comfort in its shopping areas if its businesses are to thrive. Grand Avenue, the various shopping centers such as Hillcrest Shopping Center, Sunray Center, Highland and Payne Avenue have a need for an on-going visible police presence. The downtown azea also has rebounded from an almost non-existent retail energy. This rebound is due to a major commitment of the SPPD's downtown patrol. The continuance of this zero tolerance effort is necessary for the immediate future as Saint Paul reclaims its place as a retail center. Officers engaged in overtime patrol will document their involvement in the cessation of those types of offenses which detract from a positive shopping experience such as purse snatching, loitering, panhandling, public urination, public drunkenness, and other negative qualify of life incidents. • Neighborhood Service Area. Outcome: To expand the effectiveness of the current NSA program. Individual officer use of available overtime for each NSA enhancement program would be audited routinely with interim reporting to district staf£personnel. A district lieutenani would be assigned oversaght responsibility and report the progress or lack of progress on a regular basis to the District Commander. The District commander would evaluate and d'arect continuation or termination of each program based upon a personal assessment of the success of the program. Regulaz reports on this enhancement would be generated. � �B �°' University Avenue "Street Rods" Detail. Oufcome: To be able to police the "Street Rods" event without drawing police strength from the two other districts. Regulaz reports by those working this overtime detail will provide the data necessary to adjust staffing levels. The proa am initially would be to assign four officers each Friday and Saturday through the conclusion of the state fair which is the annual even which operates as a magnet for the street rod owners. T`hrou�h the month of September, the overtime officers would be reduced to rivo each night. Adjustments would be made if the situation called for it. This enforcement effort makes the area a safer place and it increases the departments presence. Increased traffic enforcement. Outcome: To increase the number of traffic violation tags written. Officers will be assia ed to the high accident rate areas at peak tr�c times to ensure increased safety for both pedestrians and motorists. 'National Center for Health Statistics, Health, US, 1996 through 1997 and Injury Chartbook. Hyattsville, MD. 1997. iL�E ��.�o�q 4 Page 4 FY99 COMMUNITY-0RIENTED POLICING {COPS) OVERTINE GRANTS PROGRAM ag .�a�� PROJECT EVALUATION The above-mentioned examples of how the SPPD would expend overtime funding would necessitate the following specialized approaches in evaluatin� each project: Collaboration with Ramsey County Community Correction and other partners on the Enhanced Probation Pilot Project. Outcome: Minimize criminal activity by youth within the community. We will monitor the success rafe of the persons placed on this program. This will be measured by their reduced police contacts and completion of this program. Also, we will monitor to show that they have completed their education and/or have obtained a job to become productive member of the community. This effort will be measured by a periodic reports of the probation officers on the progress of their probationers. By keeping adjudicated youth away from other at- risk gang members, there is an expectation that gang activity will decrease. Canine Unit. Outcome: Canine Unit detector dogs will retrieve street drugs and assist in the confrontation with the street level drug dealer. The Canine Unit will also assist the FORCE Unit and assist in FORCE Unit activities. The amount of street drugs that the SPPD Canine Unit detector dogs can retrieve will be calculated and reported. This assault on the street level drug dealer with a concentrated pofice presence will alleviate the street drug problem on Saint Paul's streets and in its neighborhoods. Interaction and involvement of the Canine Unit with FORCE Unit activities will be quantified and analyzed periodically to see if this partnership has been effective in assisting FORCE. Curfew. Outcome: Curfew violators wili be stopped and tagged so that there is a diminution of youthful perpetrators and victims on Saint PauPs streets. The Ramsey County Truancy and Curfew Collaboration has been an on-going effort between law enforcement and youth-focused diversion programs for over three yeazs. The collaboration is intent on making the effort a permanent program available for all governmental units in Ramsey County. By having one location which is staffed and with professional intake workers for assistance, the curfew violator will be able to access a variety of referral resources. The collaboration meets monthly and has an on-going evaluation component with Wilder Research. The SPPD curfew effort will generate regular reports which will be included within the larger collaboration. Truancy. Outcome: Truancy violators will be stopped and tagged so that there is a diminution of truancy violators. Truancy, the other half of the Ramsey County Truancy and Curfew Collaboration has been the main focus of the collaboration and has been in operation for the last three academic yeazs. As analysis of the project has evolved over those years, the information has been instructive to both the evaluators and to the collaborative members. Due to the presence of the Youth Service Bureau on both program components (truancy and curfew) and its involvement in other youth crisis services, YSB has been able to establish a profile of the acting out youth. What is emerging is a youth who is both a truant and curfew violator, and in some cases, a youth who has been in need of other social services. As this coordination of information goes -8- �� .�o�q forwazd, the acting out youth will be able to be identified at an earlier stage in dysfunction and remedial resources can be utilized in retuming the youth to a healthier function level. • Gun Suppression. Outcome: To reduce the number of handguns that are in the City of Saint Paul. There has been success in training officers in techniques to rehieve illegal guns, especially those that aze in the possession of youth. The leading cause of death in teenagers (ages 15 through 24) has always been the result of violence from unintentional accident.' The Center for Disease Control has now classified violent death of youth by means of homicide as the second leading cause and classifies it as within epidemic numbers. "I'he presence and use of the gun escalates a confrontation into a tragedy. The officers will be able to document those guns which have been confiscated by utilizing gun suppression techniques. • Police Presence in Retail Areas. Outcome: To allow for the flow of commerce without disruption or the perspective of lack of safety in the retail areas. With the Mall of America having been named the number one vacation destination in the nation, the metropolitan commercial businesses have benefitted from this attracfion. The twin cities are now an intemational destination and the spillover for all kinds of businesses has been a positive outcome which was not at first expected. One of the hallmarks of the retail attraction in Minnesota is the overall safety of the area. Saint Paul must maintain this high level of safety, cleanliness and comfort in its shopping areas if its businesses are to thrive. Grand Avenue, the various shopping centers such as Hillcrest Shopping Center, Sunray Center, Highland and Payne Avenue have a need for an on-going visible police presence. The downtown azea also has rebounded from an almost non-existent retail energy. This rebound is due to a major commihnent of the SPPD's downtown patrol. The continuance of this zero tolerance effort is necessary for the immediate future as Saint Paul reclaims $s place as a retail center. O�cers engaged in overtime patrol will document their involvement in the cessation of those types of offenses which detract from a positive shopping experience such as purse snatching, loitering, panhandling, public urination, public drunkenness, and other negative qualify of life incidents. Neighborhood Service Area. Outcome: To expand the effectiveness of the current NSA program. Individual officer use of available overtime for each NSA enhancement program would be audited routinely with interim reporting to district staff personnel. A disfrict lieutenant would be assigned oversight responsibility and report the progress or lack of progress on a regulaz basis to the Aistrlct Commander. The District commander would evaluate and direct continuation or termination of each program based upon a personal assessment of the success of the program. Regulaz reports on this enhancement would be generated. University Avenue "Street Rods" Detail. Outcome: To be able to police the "Street Rods" event without drawing police strength from the two other districts. Regular reports by those working this overtime detail will provide the data necessary to ad}ust staffing levels. The program initially would be to assign four officers each Friday and Saturday through the conclusion of the state fair which is the annual even which operates as a magnet for the street rod owners. Through the month of September, the overtime 62 ��.�o�, officers would be reduced to two each night. Adjushnents would be made if the situation called for it. This enforcement effort makes the azea a safer place and it increases the departments presence. Increased traffic enforcement. Outcome: To increase the number of traffic violafion tags written. Officers will be assigned to the high accident rate azeas at peak traffic tunes to ensure increased safety for both pedestrians and motorists. 'National Center for Health Statistics, Health, US, 1996 through 1997 and Injury Chartbook. Hyattsville, iVID. 1997. -10- APPLICANI' AGENCY: St. Pau1 Police Department �� r � 5 Average Salary Used to Compute Grant Request OT Rate 35.27 Number of Officers �ai.11 vary with staff availability Amount of Overtime per Week 68 hours Number of Weeks 52 TOTAT. BLIDGET REQLTEST � 125 , 000 00 STATE AGENCI` US& ONLY GCN - DATfi :-'. . Page 5 FY99 COMMUNiTY-OftIENTED POLICING (COPS) OVERTIME GRANTS PROGRAM ORIGINAi. Presented By: OF SAINT PAUL, NIINNESOTA RESOLUTION �J Referred To: Committee:Date: 1 WHEREAS, the Saint Paul Police Department has received a grant from the Minnesota Department 2 of Public Safety, in the amount of $125,000 for police overtime, for the period October 1, 1998 to 3 September 30,1999, and 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 WHEREAS, the Department of Public Safety requests a designated authority for the execufion of agreements, and RESOLVED, that the Saint Paul City Council accept this grant award for $125,000 for police overtime and authorizes Chief William Finney, to enter into an agreement with the Department of Public Safety . 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Adopted by Council: Date: Requested by Council File # — /03 Green Sheet ' i DEPARTMINUOFFICNCOUNCIL Po2ice Departmer=t CON�AC7 PFRSON 8 PHONE Wiliiam Firr.ev 2 DATEINRWTED 11/9/98 �� TOTAL # OF SIGNATURE PAGES GREEN SHEET No � �.,,�,��.� � �� ..,.��d� 0��- ❑.«�.�,��. ❑,.�.�m �.,,w.��,,,m..�,� ❑ (CLIP ALL LOCATIONS FOR SIGNATURE) �� 61045 Acceptar.ce of Overtime Grar,t for $125,000 and authorizatior: of CHief rirr:e}� to accept ar,d ex�end the funds. Funds to be exper:ded ir, 1999. PLANNING CAMMISSION CIB CAMMRTEE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Has fhis persoNfirm ever vrorked under a wnhad far Nis tlepartmenl'7 VES NO Has ihis persoNfirtn ever been a city employce7 YES NO Does this person/firm possess a sldll not normaltypossessad by arry curteM city employee? YES NO Is this peisat�rtn a farpeted vendo? YES NO �F�lain all Yes answets on separate sheet arM akach to 9reen sheet TIATING PRO&,EM ISSUE, OPPORTUMTY (Who, What, When, Where, Why) The Minr.esota State Legislature, through the Department of Pubiic Safety, has awarded the Saint Pau1 Police Department an Overtime Grant in the amount of $125,000. DPS procedure requires that the goverr,ing body name a person and exper.d [he funds. NANTAGESIFAPPROVED The Saint Paul Police Departmer.t wi11 receive a grant for Overtime in the amount of $125,000•00 a � �� 3'�,.�.�':ei �...�'� None The Saint Paul Police Departmeet will not have the Overtime funding necessary for many of the Community Policir,g ir,itiatives which have made Sair.t Paul a safe city. 125,000 COST/REVENUE BUDfiEfED (GRCLE ON� YES NO souece State of MN Department of Public Safy��riymNwsea Please see the attached information for detail of exper�i�trtta�Er�.f funds. CI�CI [I �I2�� ^i�:'G�T �'r�.�'sb�?( NOV 16 1998 ��V MAYOR'S OFFICE q�-tos9 1 This form is to be used as the cover sheet for our ant a iicauon. CONTRACTING AGENCY: Use your legal name and Project Director Name � Bro £uIl address. This is the fiscal agent with whom the grant agreement will be esecuted. 6 51 2 9 2-3 507 Telephone Number ( ) St. Pau1 Police Department 100 E. llth Street FaY Number ( 651 ) 292-3542 Saint Pau1, MN 55101 CONTACI' MAILING ADDRESS: (If different than Contact Name: above) Amy Brown Telephone Number ( 651 ) 292-3507 Fax Number ( 651 ) 292-3542 PROJECT SERVICE ARFA (Counties/Cities) Project Start Date: Project End Date: � City of Saint Pau1 10/1/98 9/30/99 Grant a�eements wili not be pracessed without these MN Tax ID # Federal Empioyee ID # numbers: N/A 416005 5 21 z'o�,� cnarva r I � i25,000 ° .00 Project Summary - 50 words or less in the space below: The Saint Paul Police Uepartnent proposes to enhapce police services in the following areas: enhanced probation, detector d9g program, curfew and truancy, gun suppression, neighborhood service areas, retail areas, traffic enforcement. Page t FY99 COMMUNITY-ORIENTED POLICING (COPS) CVERTIME GRANTS PROGRAM Q�' z St. Pau1, MN 55101 2Authorized Official I,egal Name StreeY - Ciiy - Zip . Phone William K. Finney 100 E. lith Street 651 292-3588 St. Pau1 MN 55101 � ) 3.Operat�ng Agency (;f different from # I) Legal Name Street - City - Zip Phone � ) 4.Contact Person for further information on application Legai I�ame Streee - City - Zip Phone Amy Brown 100 E. 11th Street 651 292-3507 St. Paul, MN 55201 � ) 5. I cerfify that the information rontained herein is true and accyrate'to the best of my knowled�e and that I submit this application on behalf of the applicant agenc�+-� Signature of Authorized Official: T`itle: Ghief of Police ,� Date: g�4�gg Page 2 FY99 COMMUNITY-ORIENTED POLICING {COPS) OVERTIFAE GRANTS PROGRAM 1_ Applicafion Agency (with which contract is to be ececuted) a�-�o�9 3 (1) Describe the project you hope to implement (specifically state the problem you will address). (2) Describe the se.rvices you intend to provide and the population you will serve (identify the specific geographic location and why you chose the siie). (3) DesQibe how the need for this project was identified and how this program will address that need (include facts on crime demographics for the target azea). {4) Describe the planning process you propose to implement (Provide spe�c information about the individuals and organizations that actively helped in the planning process). (�) If other organizations will help provide services, describe their role. You may ese up to ten (10) attachment pages to support this narrative. Attached. Page 3 FY99 COMMUNIIY-ORIENTED POLICING (COPS) OVERTIM'c GRANTS PROGRAM p�� - ��1 ECT OVERVIEW COMMIJNITY ORIENTED POLICING GRANT: OVERTIME The City of Saint Paul, home of the Minnesota State Capitol, has a population of 272 235. Smaller than its twin sister city of Minueapolis which has a population of 368,383, Saint Paul has a personality which also differs from its sister city. Both cities occupy approximately 55 squaze miles. However, in Saint Paul, the energy seems to be in the city's nei�hborhoods whereas in Minneapolis the energy appears to be in its downtown retail and business district. These differences play out over and over each day as residents and visitors go about their business and activities in each of the cities. Saint Paulites like their city quiet. They like the orderliness of a well run municipal govemment. Expectations of delivery are so high that elected officials have been looking for ways to make government seem to disappear from people's lives while still maintaining the procedures which result in the city's functioning. Annually 1.2 million non-business visitors come to Saint Paul to see the world class attractions which include: the Science Museum, the Children's Museum, the Ordway Music Theatre, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra,local festivals, unique shops in channing neighborhoods, government buildings such as the Capitol and the Minnesota History Center, and instihxtions such as the Cathedral. Even the city's streets get their due with visitors driving up and down Summit Avenue, the longest stretch of Victorian residences in the United States, and with Grand Avenue noted as one of the country's most lucrative retail streets. All of this didn't just happen. It happened because of the city's underlying modus operandi which is, simply put, if one is going to do something, do it well. A significant partner in all of this has been the Saint Paul Police Department (SPPD). Over the past six years, the SPPD has been at the forefront of partnership with the city in making the city a quality place to live. The Saint Paul Police Departnient instituted Community Policing (COP) department-wide upon the appointment of Chief Finney in July of 1992. It has been six years since Chief Finney has led the community-policing effort. With the six year milestone here, the department can look back and review where the department has been and more specifically, how successful the community policing programs have been in order to combat the vagaries of crime. Like most things involved with the human condition, the incidence and types of crime also ebbs and flows. Drive-by shootings did not occur ten years ago but aze a fact of life in our violence-prone society. The incidence of drive-by shootings can never be taken lightly and thus the incident still ranks high on the police priority listing for calls for service. These and other late twentieth cenhuy crime examples continue to be labor intensive issues for law enforcement personnel. Six years ago truancy and curfew status offenses were not considered serious and were seemingly left over indicators of a more permissive society. Three yeazs ago a truancy and curfew center was started to initiate a program and to analyze the effects of tnzancy and curfew and how extensive the problem was. The schools, police and other community agencies began to realize how debilitatin� truancy was to the student, the student's family and to the business community. The program has just completed its third year with ever expanding numbers of both truants and curfew violators. -1- a � -t o� More traffic accidents aze being reported because of current insurance laws and requirements. More traffic accidents are occurring because there are simply more cazs on Saint Paul's streets and residents aze driving more miles annually than ever before. Fatalities may not be increasing, but some of the credit here must be given to the medical state of art at Regions HospitaPs emer�ency trauma room and the concomitant trainin� of medical staff. The explosion of guns upon the urban scene, especially the number of guns being used by youth, is a phenomenon that was not part of the crime scene five yeazs ago. "I`he need to e�tract fireazms out of our violent society has become critical. The return of the "beat cop", the storefront, the substation and other community assignments has culminated in the Neighborhood Service Area (NSA) and now every patrol officer and sergeant has been assigned to an NSA. This identification of the individual o�cer to a particulaz geographic assignment in place of a shift assignment has given the community the means to interact with each officer on an on-going basis, and, allows the officer to develop a more in-depth execution of law enforcement and peace keeping duties. Saint Paul has spent the last six years attempting to stem the tide of financial resources leaving the city and shoring up its neighborhoods so that there can be a positive quality of life including the local delivery of services which sma11 businesses provide. The SPPD has developed partnerships with business associations, shopping centers and other commercial centers in order to a11ow shoppers, shop keepers, and the community as a whole to continue to transact the daily business of commerce. An increased presence of beat officers throughout the city in the commercial azeas has provided the foundation for the resurgence which has been building throughout the city. It has been said that Saint Paul has more civiccelebrations than any other city of its size. From Grand Old Day - the lazgest on-day festival in the United States - to the Harvest Festival Parade which has been delighting Eastsiders for the past seventy-five years, the quality and number of Saint Paul's special events and neighborhood celebrations are the shining crown of the city's charming personality and contributes to making it one of the more colorful lazge cities throughout the country. T`he neighborhood's special events rely on the presence of the SPPD to allow people to have a comfort level so that even when one is in the midst of the 300,000 participants of Grand Old Day, one can spot the police officer's hat in the crowd and be reassured that all has been planned out. Because of this involvement with the neighborhoods, after-event reports often cite that no disturbances occurred during the event. -2- q( -to�� A particular special event in the city has been the concentration and parading of old cazs and street rods along specified routes in the city, particulazly University and Snelling Avenues. The cazs attract onlookers and, because they are constantly moving back and forth along the streets, the situation causes more disruption than if they were stationery. The investment by the owners of the cars is considerable so that the safety and relarive quiet of Saint Paul streets becomes an extremely attractive place to parade their cazs and network with other classic car aficionados. Events such as this contribute to the overall vitality of the city. The Canine Unit has diversified over the past six yeazs and now include detector dogs which are trained to sniff out illegal nazcotics. Due to the increasing amount of street level narcotics activity which changes location like water going around an obstacle, strategies to counteract this illegal mazket aze constantly being adjusted. The detector dogs offer the SPPD the ability to find illegal drugs not only during searches, but by interrupting the drug flow at points of contact such as train and bus depots, the airport, and all of the ovemight delivery services such as UPS, Federal Express and the US Postal Service. Community involvement since the inception of Saint Paul's seventeen district planning councils, the local planning which is on-going in the city epitomizes the collaborative nature of Saint Paul. SPPD's three district commanders hold regular meetings with citizens and neighborhood leaders are on a first name basis with the command staf£ Out of this regular and intensive interaction, the ability to fine tune both la�v enforcement and peacekeeping special projects arise. Not only are there regular district commander meetings, but all of the other crime prevention activities, such as block clubs, citizen patrols, and building design and Iighting review, atlow a continuum of feedback with the resultant planning which occurs. All of the specific instances noted above point to the need for a"value added" police effort within the ciry. Over the last six years, calls for service have not diminished even as the crime rate has flattened. Saint Paulites are involved with their police department. The Citizen's Police Academy has had a waiting list for participants since its inception in 1995. Citizens call the police and they expect the police to respond in the professional interactive method which has become an SPPD hallmazk of service. It is this modern day expectation which underpins the city's quality of life. If Saint Paul is going to be able to compete with the suburbs and with the small towns of Minnesota for working and living in while raising children, then this pzo-active police presence becomes a necessity. And, since the City of Saint Paul is a vacation and commercial destination for the vast majority of out-state Minnesotans and visitors on an annual basis, the high standazd of police activiry, which all have come to expect, must remain at that high consistency. -�- q �.��s9 This proposal is to seek funding to continue the foliowin� overtime projects within the SPPD and to provide the level of service which the State of Minnesota has come to expect from the City of Saint Paul: Ramsey County has a s�anificant Asian population, the vast majority of which are Hmong and live in the City of Saint Paui. Since the iate 198�s, the number of Hmong youth coming into our juvenile conectional proa ams has grown. Unforiunately, it is quite typical that Asian delinquent youth become involved in criminal gangs, violent offenses and the use of weapons. The following data will help to illustrate these trends: New cases or admissions: Asian Juveniles Boys Totem Town Juvenile Detention 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 ----- � 38 27 15 16 30 22 29 35 33 23 126 132 213 167 194 267 271 310 Juvenile Probation 24 16 77 62 78 87 112 130 214 180 The number of southeast Asian youth entering the Ramsey County juvenile probation system in 1996 equaled 12 percent of the total of 150� new juveniles referred to the county system during the year. 140 (78 percent) of these juveniles were Hmong. The other 40 (22 percent) were from other Asian cultures. In 1996, juveniles were involved in 8 out ofthe 23 homicides in Saint Paul. In 1997, 3 of the 2G homicides were committed by juveniles and 4 of the 24 were victims of homicide. In 1995 juveniles accounted for over 58 percent of all arrests for Part I crimes in the city. Despite the decrease in the juvenile population in recent yeazs there has been a 52 percent increase in juvenile arrests. Although, this program is encompassing Ramsey County, these numbers reflect the voiume of the juvenile problem in St. Paul. A list of juveniles with ten of more contacts has been pulled from our data base. These numbezs represent a 7 year period dating frozn June of 1990 through June of 1998. Of these juveniles, who aze currently stili under the age of 18 years old, 112 have accounted for 1972 contacts in the juvenile office. They range from having 37 to 13 contacts each in this time period. Another 198 juveniles account for 2120 contacts and have 12 to 10 contacts each. The Juvenile Unit has handled 60,787 cases in this same time period. From this number the Juvenile Unit has chazged 55,456 juveniles. Tlus number reflects varying degrees of action from court appearances to referrals to diversion programs. Of that number 21,180 cases have been cleared by arrest. (�TOte, the cleared by arrest number reflect juveniles that may have been charged with multiple offenses.) -4- GrY-�o�9 A study was done by the Orange County Probation Department in Califomia in 1994. This study showed that �0 percent o£ the first time offenders did not commit further crimes as juveniles. It did show that 8 percent became chronic re-offenders, committin� at least three and up to 14 more crimes or probation violations while still juveniles. This small �roup of re-offenders were responsible for more than 50 percent of the repeat business faced by the juvenile system. Although, a study has not been done in Ramsey County, it is believed that the problem is the same percentage wise and increasing. The 8 percent is the number that we are trying to identify and take the approximate action w�th. Through intensive probation and intervention we hope to modify behavior and offer family support. A portion of the overtime funds will be used to continue to staff this Enhanced Probation Pilot Project, a collaborative effort with Ramsey County Community Corrections. The Enhanced Probation Pilot Project pairs probation officers with police officers to make home visits to selected juvenile probationers to verify ttaat they are not participating in prohibited activities. A unique facet of this local application is that Ramsey County judges are now making a condition of many probations that the subject may have "no contact with known gang members". Enforcing these probation conditions should have an impact on the most active gang members who aze also within the defined group of most violent. This is the first time that the back end of the criminal justice system, corrections, will become a problem solver with the front end, law enforcement. Community partners in this project include Hmong American Partnership, Peem Psheej (Struggle for success), Lao Family of Minnesota, United Cambodian Association of Minnesota, African Family Services Out Patient Treahnent, Days consequence Program, New Connections, Big Brothers, AA, Wilders Vietnamese Refugee Program, and La Opportunidad Hispanic Families for Peace. An intensified effort to stem the flow of illegal narcotics via use of the Canine Unit's detector dog program. These officers and their canine partners trained in narcotics interdiction tactics would avail themselves on an overtime basis to those locations where illegal narcotics enfer Saint Paul. Potential locations include the train and bus depots, both airports, Federal Express offices, UPS distribution centers, and the U.S. Postal Service branches. Additionally, the Canine Unit's patrol dogs would be used to supplement those officers from the FORCE Unit who are involved in the arrest of street level drug dealers. Patrol dogs would be used to prevent the escape of suspects, the pursuit and search of suspects, the apprehension of suspects, and to protect police officers who aze perfomung drug enforcement activities. They would also assist officers in the recovery of drugs and cunency. The canine officers would be assigned to the FORCE Unit and work under that uniYs direction for this type of concentrated detail. To continue the truancy program. The Ramsey Counry Truancy and Curfew Center is a collaborative effort of more than 20 private and public non-profit organizations. Juvenile crime is a serious issue in Minnesota and Ramsey County. Whlle Minnesota is relatively safe when compared to other states, juvenile arrests for criminal offenses increased 10.5 percent between 1995 and 1996. Juveniles accounted for 30 percent of all arrests in 1996 including 49 percent of Part I offenses (serious crimes). In Saint Paul in 1996, juveniles -5- qg -��'� were involved in 8 out of the 23 homicides in Saint Paul. In 1997, 3 of the 24 homicides were committed by juveniles and 4 of the 24 were victims of homicide. In 1995 juveniles accounted for over 58 percent of all arrests for Part I crimes in the city. Despite the decrease in the juvenile population in recent years there has been a 52 percent increase in juvenile arrests. During the 1997-98 school yeaz, the center serviced appro�mately 2,000 students. This was an increase of 141 percent over the nwnber served by the attendance center in the 1994-95 school yeaz. Students apprehended by law enforcement officers comprised 71 percent of the students involved. Previous efforts over the last three yeazs have reduced the number of daytime burglaries, problems at schools at dismissal time and has also reduced the high incidence of ca11s for service between 2:0� to 4:OOPM. This ongoing collaboration consisting of the Saint Paul School District, Saint Paul Police suburban school districts, various departments of Ramsey County, suburban law enforcement, and non-profit agencies such as the Youth Service Bureau, has now completed three academic years of this project with the last academic year having the truancy effort countywide. The relationship to juvenile crime, while higher during after school hours, remains very high during the curfew hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. weekdays and midnight to 6 a.m. weekends. The FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System for 1991-92 found that one in six of all violent juvenile crimes occurred these hours. Youth out after curfew aze far more likely to become viciims of crune than an elderly person. Between June 12, 1996, and Apri15, 1997, the Curfew center served 1,382 youth ranging from 8 to 17 yeazs of age. Eighry percent of those arrests occurred in Saint Paul. From June of 1997 to June of 1998, 1560 arrests were made for curfew violations in the City of Saint Paul. • In 1997 there were 1228 dischazge of a firearm calls in the city. These discharge calls represent more than three shots every day being reported to the police. In addition to these discharge calls, well over 50 percent of the homicides in the city were committed with firearms. A continuation of the gun suppression program in those azeas of the city where there is a high concentration of gangs and a history of gun activity. There is no more dangerous a combination than gangs and guns. This gun suppression program is aimed at reducing the number of With youth's propensity of impulsive behavior and their commonly held belief that tragedy will not happen to them, youth as perpetrators and as victims aze experiencing an epidemic of violence. • To increase a visible police presence in the city's retail and coinmercial azeas in order to promote an uninterrupted business climate for shoppers and business owners. Specific areas of concern would be 1) the pickpocket detail which can be called out when there have been reports of this activity, 2) officers patrolling municipal ramps when there are special events attracting out of town visitors who are not familiar with the city. From July 1, 1997 to July 1, 1998, the downtown area reported 3606 incidents which included 629 thefts. Horse patrol officers will be used to supplement this effort in high visibility retail and commercial azeas. • To allow the Neighborhood Service Area Officer to continue to work on specific problems in selected neighborhoods using the NSA concept to address problems which � a� � -�059 would benefit from this more involved effort. Examples would include problem properties, gaffiti, neighborhood events, and theft epidemics. In 1997, the City of Saint Paul experienced 21,526 offenses, compazed to 21,393 in 1996. These NSA projects are designed to make an impact on the quality of life and crime rate in the ciry. Officers would be asked to desi� a proa am in which they would be pernutted to expend additional patrol hours to address a specific NSA concem. The pro�am would consist of two components, a pro-active approach to the problem during regularly assigned hours through the use of normal on-duty discrerionary patrol time, and secondly, an overtime status component in which officers would be able to work designated overtime hours in which their time is specifically dedicated to address the identified concern. O�cers would also be required to develop a specific program objective and submit a written proposal to the district command staff in wkuch they would delineate their program, identify specific program objectives and identify a means to measure results. Proposals submitted would be evaluated, prioritized and approved by the Dish Commander with input from both patrol and investigate Lieutenants. The NSA enhancement program would also be available to each of the districYs investigative units. Sergeant-Investigators would be asked to develop programs which are designed to address specific district crime problems which come to theit attention in the course of the conduct of cximinal investigations. Programs developed by Sergeant- Investigators would have the same requirements for a written proposal with specific measurable objectives and evaluation. Patrol dogs wili be used to supplement those officers from the patrol districts who aze involved in the neighborhood service area projects. These canine teams will be used to prevent the escape of suspects, pursue and search for suspects, apprehend suspects, and protect police officers who are performing police functions. District concerns which might be addressed under this program would include pro-active intervention to deal with the annual problem of sorority and fraternity parties in the vicinity of the ciry's colleges and universities, surveillance, projects to deter theft from autos in the city's parks, and problem residences. To continue to focus on University Avenue by providing sufficient officers to work weekend traffic details to contend with the unique experiences of the "street rod" phenomena and the accompanying concern for pedestrian safety and community concerns for the resulting noise and disruption. This would allow the Western District to police this activity without requiring the assistance of patrols from both Central and Eastem Districts. From July 1, 1997, to July 1, 1998, 236 traffic incidents were reported and dealt with by the police. To select and enforce specific azeas for traffic enforcement. Certain city streets have a high incidence of violations along with a high accident rate. These include White Bear 7- q�-�os9 Avenue, Maryland Avenue, Snelling Avenue, University Avenue, Rice Street and Dale Street. The amount of traffic and violations of speed along these streets have increased so that they have become major problems for theiz surrounding neighborhoods. In 1997, 10 of 12 fatal accidents in the city were pedestrians. By increasin� traffic patrols on these streets, the safety of both caz and pedestrian tr�c can be assured. PROJECT EVALUATION The above-mentioned examples of how the SPPD would expend overtime funding would necessitate the followin� specialized approaches in evaluating each project: Collaboration with Ramsey County Community Correction and other partners on the Enhanced Probation Pilot Project. Outcome: Minimize criminal activity by youth within the community. We wiil monitor the success rate of the persons placed on this program. This will be measured by their reduced police contacts and completion of this program. Also, we will monitor to show that they have completed their education and/or have obtained a job to become productive member of the community. This effort wi11 be measured by a periodic reports of the probation officers on the progress of their probationers. By keeping adjudicated youth away from other at- risk gang members, there is an expectation that gang activity wili decrease. • Canine Unit. Outcome: Canine Unit detector dogs will retrieve street drugs and assist in the confrontation with the street level drug dealer. The Canine Unit will also assist the FORCE Unit and assist in FORCE Unit activities. The amount of street drugs that the SPPD Canine Unit detector dogs can retrieve will be calculated and reported. This assault on the street level drug dealer with a concentrated police presence will alleviate the street drug problem on Saint Paul's streets and in its neighborhoods. Interaction and involvement of the Canine Unit with FORCE Unit activities will be quantified and analyzed periodically to see if this parknership has been effective in assisting FORCE. • Curfew. Outeome: Curfew violators will be stopped and tagged so that there is a diminution of youthful perpetrators and victims on Saint Paul's streets. The Ramsey Connty Truancy and Curfew Collaboration has been an on-going effort between law enforcement and youth-focused diversion programs for over three years. The collaboration is intent on making the effort a permanent program available for all governmental units in Ramsey County. By having one location which is staffed and with professional intake workers for assistance, the curfew violator will be able to access a variety of referral resources. The collaboration meets monthly and has an on-�oing evaluation component with Wilder Research. The SPPD curfew effort will generate regulaz reports which will be included within the larger collaboration. Truancy. Outcome: Truancy violators will be stopped and tagged so that there is a diminntion of truancy violators. Truancy, the other half of the Ramsey County Truancy and Curfew Collaboration has been the main focus of the collaboration and has been in -$- �iY -Ia'S9 operation for the last three academic yeats. As analysis of the project has evolved over those years, the information has been instructive to both the evaluators and to the collaborative members. Due to the presence of the Youth Service Bureau on both program components (truancy and curfew) and its involvement in other youth crisis services, YSB has been able to establish a profile of the acting out youth. What is emerging is a youth who is both a truant and curfew violator, and in some cases, a youth who has been an need of other social services. As this coordination of information goes forvaazd, the acting out youth will be able to be identified at an eazlier stage in dysfunction and remedial resources can be utilized in returning the youth to a healthier function level. • Gun Suppression. Outcome: To reduce the number of handguns that are in the City of Saint Paul. There has been success in training officers in techniques to retrieve illegal guns, especially those that aze in the possession of youth. The leading cause of death in teenagers (ages 15 through 24) has always been the result of violence from unintentional accident.' The Center for Disease Control has now classified violent death of youth by means of homicide as the second leading cause and classifies it as within epidemic numbers. The presence and use of the gun escalates�e confrontation into a tragedy. The officers will be able to document those guns which have been confiscated by utilizing gun suppression techniques. • Police Presence in Retail Areas. Outcome: To allow for the flow of commerce without disruption or the perspective of lack of safety in the retail areas. With the Mall of America having been named the number one vacation destination in the nation, the metropolitan commercial businesses have benefitted from this amaction. The twin cities aze now an international destination and the spillover for all kinds of businesses has been a positive outcome which was not at first expected. One of the hallmarks of the retail attraction in Minnesota is the overall safety of the area. Saint Paul must maintain this high level of safety, cleanliness and comfort in its shopping areas if its businesses are to thrive. Grand Avenue, the various shopping centers such as Hillcrest Shopping Center, Sunray Center, Highland and Payne Avenue have a need for an on-going visible police presence. The downtown azea also has rebounded from an almost non-existent retail energy. This rebound is due to a major commitment of the SPPD's downtown patrol. The continuance of this zero tolerance effort is necessary for the immediate future as Saint Paul reclaims its place as a retail center. Officers engaged in overtime patrol will document their involvement in the cessation of those types of offenses which detract from a positive shopping experience such as purse snatching, loitering, panhandling, public urination, public drunkenness, and other negative qualify of life incidents. • Neighborhood Service Area. Outcome: To expand the effectiveness of the current NSA program. Individual officer use of available overtime for each NSA enhancement program would be audited routinely with interim reporting to district staf£personnel. A district lieutenani would be assigned oversaght responsibility and report the progress or lack of progress on a regular basis to the District Commander. The District commander would evaluate and d'arect continuation or termination of each program based upon a personal assessment of the success of the program. Regulaz reports on this enhancement would be generated. � �B �°' University Avenue "Street Rods" Detail. Oufcome: To be able to police the "Street Rods" event without drawing police strength from the two other districts. Regulaz reports by those working this overtime detail will provide the data necessary to adjust staffing levels. The proa am initially would be to assign four officers each Friday and Saturday through the conclusion of the state fair which is the annual even which operates as a magnet for the street rod owners. T`hrou�h the month of September, the overtime officers would be reduced to rivo each night. Adjustments would be made if the situation called for it. This enforcement effort makes the area a safer place and it increases the departments presence. Increased traffic enforcement. Outcome: To increase the number of traffic violation tags written. Officers will be assia ed to the high accident rate areas at peak tr�c times to ensure increased safety for both pedestrians and motorists. 'National Center for Health Statistics, Health, US, 1996 through 1997 and Injury Chartbook. Hyattsville, MD. 1997. iL�E ��.�o�q 4 Page 4 FY99 COMMUNITY-0RIENTED POLICING {COPS) OVERTINE GRANTS PROGRAM ag .�a�� PROJECT EVALUATION The above-mentioned examples of how the SPPD would expend overtime funding would necessitate the following specialized approaches in evaluatin� each project: Collaboration with Ramsey County Community Correction and other partners on the Enhanced Probation Pilot Project. Outcome: Minimize criminal activity by youth within the community. We will monitor the success rafe of the persons placed on this program. This will be measured by their reduced police contacts and completion of this program. Also, we will monitor to show that they have completed their education and/or have obtained a job to become productive member of the community. This effort will be measured by a periodic reports of the probation officers on the progress of their probationers. By keeping adjudicated youth away from other at- risk gang members, there is an expectation that gang activity will decrease. Canine Unit. Outcome: Canine Unit detector dogs will retrieve street drugs and assist in the confrontation with the street level drug dealer. The Canine Unit will also assist the FORCE Unit and assist in FORCE Unit activities. The amount of street drugs that the SPPD Canine Unit detector dogs can retrieve will be calculated and reported. This assault on the street level drug dealer with a concentrated pofice presence will alleviate the street drug problem on Saint Paul's streets and in its neighborhoods. Interaction and involvement of the Canine Unit with FORCE Unit activities will be quantified and analyzed periodically to see if this partnership has been effective in assisting FORCE. Curfew. Outcome: Curfew violators wili be stopped and tagged so that there is a diminution of youthful perpetrators and victims on Saint PauPs streets. The Ramsey County Truancy and Curfew Collaboration has been an on-going effort between law enforcement and youth-focused diversion programs for over three yeazs. The collaboration is intent on making the effort a permanent program available for all governmental units in Ramsey County. By having one location which is staffed and with professional intake workers for assistance, the curfew violator will be able to access a variety of referral resources. The collaboration meets monthly and has an on-going evaluation component with Wilder Research. The SPPD curfew effort will generate regular reports which will be included within the larger collaboration. Truancy. Outcome: Truancy violators will be stopped and tagged so that there is a diminution of truancy violators. Truancy, the other half of the Ramsey County Truancy and Curfew Collaboration has been the main focus of the collaboration and has been in operation for the last three academic yeazs. As analysis of the project has evolved over those years, the information has been instructive to both the evaluators and to the collaborative members. Due to the presence of the Youth Service Bureau on both program components (truancy and curfew) and its involvement in other youth crisis services, YSB has been able to establish a profile of the acting out youth. What is emerging is a youth who is both a truant and curfew violator, and in some cases, a youth who has been in need of other social services. As this coordination of information goes -8- �� .�o�q forwazd, the acting out youth will be able to be identified at an earlier stage in dysfunction and remedial resources can be utilized in retuming the youth to a healthier function level. • Gun Suppression. Outcome: To reduce the number of handguns that are in the City of Saint Paul. There has been success in training officers in techniques to rehieve illegal guns, especially those that aze in the possession of youth. The leading cause of death in teenagers (ages 15 through 24) has always been the result of violence from unintentional accident.' The Center for Disease Control has now classified violent death of youth by means of homicide as the second leading cause and classifies it as within epidemic numbers. "I'he presence and use of the gun escalates a confrontation into a tragedy. The officers will be able to document those guns which have been confiscated by utilizing gun suppression techniques. • Police Presence in Retail Areas. Outcome: To allow for the flow of commerce without disruption or the perspective of lack of safety in the retail areas. With the Mall of America having been named the number one vacation destination in the nation, the metropolitan commercial businesses have benefitted from this attracfion. The twin cities are now an intemational destination and the spillover for all kinds of businesses has been a positive outcome which was not at first expected. One of the hallmarks of the retail attraction in Minnesota is the overall safety of the area. Saint Paul must maintain this high level of safety, cleanliness and comfort in its shopping areas if its businesses are to thrive. Grand Avenue, the various shopping centers such as Hillcrest Shopping Center, Sunray Center, Highland and Payne Avenue have a need for an on-going visible police presence. The downtown azea also has rebounded from an almost non-existent retail energy. This rebound is due to a major commihnent of the SPPD's downtown patrol. The continuance of this zero tolerance effort is necessary for the immediate future as Saint Paul reclaims $s place as a retail center. O�cers engaged in overtime patrol will document their involvement in the cessation of those types of offenses which detract from a positive shopping experience such as purse snatching, loitering, panhandling, public urination, public drunkenness, and other negative qualify of life incidents. Neighborhood Service Area. Outcome: To expand the effectiveness of the current NSA program. Individual officer use of available overtime for each NSA enhancement program would be audited routinely with interim reporting to district staff personnel. A disfrict lieutenant would be assigned oversight responsibility and report the progress or lack of progress on a regulaz basis to the Aistrlct Commander. The District commander would evaluate and direct continuation or termination of each program based upon a personal assessment of the success of the program. Regulaz reports on this enhancement would be generated. University Avenue "Street Rods" Detail. Outcome: To be able to police the "Street Rods" event without drawing police strength from the two other districts. Regular reports by those working this overtime detail will provide the data necessary to ad}ust staffing levels. The program initially would be to assign four officers each Friday and Saturday through the conclusion of the state fair which is the annual even which operates as a magnet for the street rod owners. Through the month of September, the overtime 62 ��.�o�, officers would be reduced to two each night. Adjushnents would be made if the situation called for it. This enforcement effort makes the azea a safer place and it increases the departments presence. Increased traffic enforcement. Outcome: To increase the number of traffic violafion tags written. Officers will be assigned to the high accident rate azeas at peak traffic tunes to ensure increased safety for both pedestrians and motorists. 'National Center for Health Statistics, Health, US, 1996 through 1997 and Injury Chartbook. Hyattsville, iVID. 1997. -10- APPLICANI' AGENCY: St. Pau1 Police Department �� r � 5 Average Salary Used to Compute Grant Request OT Rate 35.27 Number of Officers �ai.11 vary with staff availability Amount of Overtime per Week 68 hours Number of Weeks 52 TOTAT. BLIDGET REQLTEST � 125 , 000 00 STATE AGENCI` US& ONLY GCN - DATfi :-'. . Page 5 FY99 COMMUNiTY-OftIENTED POLICING (COPS) OVERTIME GRANTS PROGRAM