•Police Commission President John Mack said he attended many events honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr over the weekend including the Kingdom Day Parade with Police Chief Charlie Beck. He said the parade was well attended despite heavy rain.
•Police Commissioner Alan Skobin attended a reception for all Community Police Advisory Board members with fellow Commissioner Robert Saltzman. He said the event was well attended.
•Police Chief Charlie Beck said the Department has been dealing with weather related events. He added the Department is partnering with 17 different agencies including the Los Angeles Fire Department.
•The Department's verbal presentation and discussion relative to the current status of the Digital In-Car Video Camera system field test and the overall status of the entire Operations South Bureau project was given by Police Administrator Maggie Goodrich. Ms. Goodrich informed the Board a lot of the problems they are seeing with the system is with integration but they are seeing much improvement with stand alone testing. She added they will complete the testing in three weeks and give the system to the Senior Lead Officers for continued testing. She anticipates coming back to the Board in five to six weeks with a plan.
•The Department's verbal presentation and discussion relative to Department strategies to respond to California Prison Reform and resulting release of prisoners was given by Deputy Chief Jim McDonnell. Chief McDonnell said on January 25, 2010, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) will reduce its population by 18,000 with 5,940 released into Los Angeles County. The Department has established a Parole Tracking Unit that will concentrate on the Skid Row area and all areas have Parole Outreach meetings which promotes interaction with parolees. The Department is also working with CDCR to apprehend parole offenders and Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division will track parolees who are outfitted with GPS tracking devices.
•The Department's report, dated December 31, 2009, relative to the destruction of obsolete duplicate records, was approved and transmitted to the City Clerk, Records Management Officer.
•The Department's report, dated January 5, 2010, relative to the First Amendment to Professional Service Agreement Contract No. C-110675 with Huntington Court Reporters & Transcription, Inc., for court reporter services, was approved and transmitted to the Mayor's office.
•The Department's report, dated December 29, 2009, relative to warrant applications and supporting affidavits audit, second quarter, fiscal year 2009/10 (IAID No. 09-006), was approved.
•The Department's report, dated January 5, 2010, in response to the Office of the Controller relative to the audit of the Forensic DNA backlog reduction grant program awards, as given by Police Administrator Yvette Sanchez-Owens, was approved. Ms. Sanchez-Owens informed the Board there was going to be a re-integration of systems with Robbery-Homicide Division having the sole system to track DNA evidence. She said there are currently 1,200 cases waiting to be tested. She also added a considerable amount of money can be saved by not outsourcing the cases for testing but rather testing the cases with department Criminalists by additional funding from the City.
What is the Parole Tracking Unit? No one I talk to on Lapd or CDC has heard of it. RACR Officers explained that they have access to the GPS tracking capabilities, but only use it if a Officer calls in to check a location. Sounds like Smoke and Mirrors. Standby when the prisons open there doors.
Posted by: Concerned | January 25, 2025 at 09:20 PM