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It's 11:36 on Tuesday, the 2nd of June, and I call to order now the Public Safety Committee meeting. Chair Larston is not present. He has a military commitment, so I will sit in on his behalf. First item of business, approval of the April

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7th, 2026 meeting minutes. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> I have a second? >> Second. >> Second. All right, if there are any changes, comments, or anything of that nature here and now. Seeing none, all in favor indicate by saying aye. >> Aye. >> All right. >> Aye. >> Any in opposition?

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Don't see anything in opposition. That passes. All right, first step, we have a crime plan update by Chief Garcia, Fort Worth PD. Good morning, Chief. >> Morning. So, good morning. Before we begin, uh really it's going to be kind of the

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criminologist's show. I just want to thank you uh for the opportunity that to present our crime plan and the partnership with our criminologist. Um I will say [clears throat] obviously no secret about it, but when I first got to the city to the east, uh I've been working with criminologists for a while.

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There's other uh cities that have been working along with this crime plan. Um one of the dynamics is as we look at the city of Fort Worth and quite frankly every statistical category, whether be violent crime, whether be murder, aggravated assault, robbery, including property crime that continues to go down in the city. Obviously going into the

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summer months, it's not the time to sit on our hands. And so certainly working with criminologists and getting uh uh plans and programs that have shown uh to be working around the country is something that's incredibly uh important for us. Our job ultimately is to put our

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officers in the best places for them to succeed. Uh and we were going to continue to do that uh both with internal plans and external plans, including the criminologist. So, with that, I'm going to uh pass it over to Dr. Mike Smith and Rob Tillyer uh to walk us through the presentation. >> Good morning, and welcome, Dr. Smith.

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>> Morning, y'all. It is still morning. Yes, good morning. >> You're hanging on. >> Uh I'm Mike Smith um and I'm with my colleague uh Dr. Rob Tiller. Uh we are professors of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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Um long-time police researchers um who've been working in the space for, you know, a long time, many years. Um and we're grateful and um and pleased to be partnering with your city and the >> Fort Worth Police Department >> uh on this violent crime plan uh that

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we're here to talk about this morning. And so um this plan is a evidence-based uh plan that's that's comprised of three primary strategies that are designed to work together and synergistically to reduce violent street crime uh in large urban

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areas like Fort Worth. Uh it has three primary strategies as I mentioned. The first one is a hotspots policing strategy. Uh the second one is a mid-term strategy that's focused on persistent, we call them persistently violent places.

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Um places that um have been among your top three or four most violent places in Fort Worth for the last three to five years. That's what that strategy is designed to address. It's a multi-pronged strategy, requires a lot of resources uh to address these highly problematic areas beyond just the

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police. Uh and the third strategy is focused on people. It's an offender-focused strategy. Um in the criminology world, we call it focused deterrence. It's designed to help break the cycle of violence among persistently violent offenders and hopefully offer them

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a different path. Um So, a little bit more detail about these strategies, particularly the hotspot strategy, uh which is um the first the first one out of the gate um and the one that is underway right now. Um

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The these strategies work because of a couple of criminological facts that we would call them. Um violent crime is not um doesn't happen everywhere. Um it happens in a relatively small number of places and I'll show you some

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data in a minute on that. Um it also is not committed by most offenders. It's committed by a relatively few number of offenders. Um some of whom are persistently violent. Um and that third strategy that I mentioned, focused deterrence, is really designed to address

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those few individuals. So, the kind of plans that we uh are are sketched have sketched out here for you um require uh careful data analysis. Um it they require good data first of all um and then careful analysis and you'll

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see uh what we mean in a minute. Um but we end up mapping crime down to very small grids in your city. Um and get get very very granular about where these violent crimes are happening

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and who's committing them. So, I mentioned the concentration of crime by place. Uh here's some data um Fort Worth is on the top line of that um of that table, but there's some comparison cities in Texas as well, Dallas and San Antonio.

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I mentioned those grids. Uh so, we we divide your city into 100-m by 100-m grid squares. Um and then we map crime uh and other measures down to the to that very small granular level.

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You have 92,348 of those grids in your city. In the last 5 years, between 2021 and 2025, um only 6,700 of them produced any violent street crime. And 1,300 of them, or about 1.5%,

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accounted for 50% of all of your violent crime. Um another way of thinking about that is in Fort Worth uh 93% of your land area produces no violent street crime. So, when you know these facts and you

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can see the data are very similar in Dallas and San Antonio um and in fact across across um across the world where this kind of research has been done. Um and so knowing this fact is very powerful. Um cuz what it suggests is that if the goal is to reduce violent

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street crime police don't need to be everywhere. They need to be a relatively few number of places. Um and that's that's what the strategies are designed to leverage particularly the hotspot strategy. This is a um a graphic that that talks about the other side of the

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coin, the offender uh side of the coin. Um the graph on your right is actually a a crime curve. Each of those little squares represent a a study uh over about the last 45 years that has looked at the concentration of

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crime among offending offenders or of the offending population. Um and I've summarized the the results there in the in the inset uh language there to the left of the graph. Um If you look at the entire population,

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those people who commit crime and the vast majority of that who don't among that general population about 10% of your most criminally active offenders account for 2/3 of your all all of your violent crime. If you look just at offenders, those people that commit crime on a regular

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basis um 10% of them commit about 40% of all violent crime. And together about 20% of offenders commit about 80% of your violent crime. So, again, knowing that, knowing these facts, Dr. allows us Yes. >> All right, I vote

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>> Yeah, we have one more question here. Can I get a quick um just some definitions real quick? >> Sure. >> You've used street the term street crime and >> Violent street crime? >> Okay, so it where it's one in the same. We're not talking about two different types of of crime. >> Right. So, violent street crime is I

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think the term you've heard me use. Yeah, um So, we define that um in as murder, robbery, and aggravated assault. >> Okay. >> So, vi- violent felony street crimes. >> So, uh would rape be part of that as well?

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>> No. No. >> Okay. So, you said murder, >> Murder, robbery, and and non-family violence aggravated assault. >> Okay, thank you. >> So, yeah, sure. Um So, deterring sexual assault or or

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domestic violence is a is also a very important goal, requires a different set of strategies though entirely. >> Okay. >> Then then then dealing with violent street crime. Okay? Is that Did I answer your question for now? Okay.

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Um So, I'll kind of pivot now to talk about the hotspots portion of this strategy, which is the uh we call it the near-term strategy simply because it's typically the first one that rolls out. Um Uh the others are a little bit more complex, take a little bit more time to

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get into place. Um hotspots policing is probably though the strategy that we have the most evidence for uh in the criminological criminological literature going back 40 years for its success. Um and so it is the

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it's the foundation of the crime plan. Um it's also So, I I would characterize it as it's a necessary but insufficient strategy as well. Hotspots policing is great. It will help lower the crime temperature in some of those those violent places

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that we talked about that that uh those those few grids that produce most of it. Um it will not solve the problem by itself and it's not designed to. Um it is designed to lower violent crime though in those places that produce most of it.

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And the strategies that we recommend um are are twofold. One is a high visibility strategy. Uh it is nothing more than a lighted patrol car. And when I say lighted, I mean all of the emergency lights on the vehicle turned on.

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Uh parked stationary in one of these hotspots for a 15-minute period during a peak crime hour. So we we not only map crime down to the place, down to those grids, but we also map it temporarily by hour of the day

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and day of the week. So the deployment strategy that we recommend puts police officers in one of those high crime grids um during a half during a peak crime hour for a 15-minute window. Uh with the officer out of the car

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foot patrolling the area talking to residents, talking to business owners that kind of thing. And then and then the officer marks back in service and goes about his or her business until the next until the next treatment hour. And so that's the high visibility

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strategy. The other hotspot strategy is an offender focus strategy. Um this requires a uh team of uh skilled police officers. You happen to have one of those uh here in Fort Worth.

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Uh the directed response unit. We actually rode along with them last week. Um these are highly capable group of men and women. Uh what these teams do is they also work in these hotspots, these relatively few hotspots. But they focus on people. They focus on

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persistently violent offenders. People that have active warrants on file, um who are otherwise engaged uh in activity that that put them at risk for violent crime. Um and their job is to both is to deter them. Um

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either by arresting them or by simply by being present and and letting them know that they're in the area. Those two strategies work together as part of the hotspots policing strategy that's underway right now. It started in uh April 1st um here in Fort Worth.

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Um And it's important to understand that um sort of the parameters of this this strategy. Uh I mentioned you've got 92,348 of those grids in your city. Uh currently the Fort Worth Police Department is treating 12 of them.

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Um That's a that's a very very small number. Um And over um over the course of a year, you'll treat less than 1%, far less in fact of than 1% of all of your grids with this strategy.

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Um it is not an over uh saturation strategy by any stretch. Um it's not a crackdown strategy. Um it is not a stop and frisk strategy. Um it is a very focused, very precise, high visibility, and offender focused

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strategy uh designed to put police resources in a very small number of places that produce most of your violent crime. So, we talked about hotspots. Um those hotspots are identified based on reported violent street crime. The the question that you asked about a second

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ago. Um murder, robbery, and aggravated assault. Um we our team analyzes your crime data every 60 days in your city. And we map those those crimes down to those that grid level. Um and then we

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we simply really right rank order them the the the worst to the least worst. And every 60 days we recommend that resources be shifted to the next set of of of of grids um based on what was sort of what areas

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were hot or crime-prone in the most recent 60-day period as well as some consideration given to places that have a longer-term crime trend problem over the last 12 months or so. Um the treatment duration is for 60 days. Uh each treatment period is 60 days

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long. Um and as I mentioned about 12 grids are being treated right now. Um that's 0.01% of the total number of grids in your city. Um and then at the end of that 60-day treatment period uh we redo that crime

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analysis uh make a new set of recommendations to uh based on reported crime in the previous 60 days. Um and then we look backward and we analyze what happened to crime in the places that were treated during the most recent treatment period. And we put all of that

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information in a dashboard for um for senior police uh leaders in Fort Worth to to be able to see. Um I mentioned those two types of treatment the high visibility and the offender focused. Um which grid gets which treatment is a

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decision made by the Fort Worth Police Department um with some um some recommendations from us especially early on simply because we've we've been doing this work for the last 5 years and have learned quite a bit about um kind of what places are best suited for which

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type of treatment. Um so roughly half of those 12 will get high visibility and about half will get the offender focused treatment every 60 days. So what happens when you when you use a set of strategies like this? I said we've been doing this work for 5

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years. We started in Dallas in 2021. Um and in that 4-year period between May of 2021 and April of 2025 violent street crime in Dallas decreased by 22%.

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Uh murders went from 260 to 156. Robberies decreased by 31%, aggravated assaults by 30%. Now violent crime is going down in a lot of places right now for the last 12 to 18 months and that's a great thing. That's largely a nationwide trend not

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true everywhere but it largely true in many big cities. That was not the case at all though in Dallas when we started in 2021. Um the reductions that we're talking about in Dallas coincided with the start of the crime plan. Um and the reductions that we've

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documented did not happen everywhere in 2021 or 2022 or 2023. Like they didn't happen in any any of our comparison cities except for Dallas. Um that is a interrupted time series

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graphic from San Antonio. It represents crime data in San Antonio from 2020 through 2025. Um that red dotted line is the introduction of the crime plan the crime plan that I just uh sketched out for you

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all. Same crime plan is has been implemented in San Antonio since January of 2023. So that that's the the intervention point that red line. To the left of it of that red line is what crime was doing and violent street crime was doing in San Antonio prior to

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the introduction of the crime plan. And to the right is what violent crime did after the introduction of the crime plan. Again these are evidence-based strategies. We we didn't invent them. Um they've been uh they've been tested in

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the literature um for more than 40 years. Uh which is why we we've put them together uh in a single strategic plan to help cities reduce violent crime. And these are the kinds of results that can happen when you use these evidence-based strategies.

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We've used them outside of Texas as well. Uh we worked in Tacoma, Washington for for a couple of years. Um Tacoma saw significant crime reductions as a result of these strategies as well. Um one of the questions that we get a

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lot is um well, if you treat crime in these in these hotspots, won't it just move around the corner? Won't won't it just displace to somewhere else? There's many years of research that's have examined that question and and and

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we've done a bunch of it ourselves. The answer is usually, generally speaking, no. Um it's not that you you don't ever see displacement. You you do occasionally see it. But you rarely see it systematically. We've actually never seen it systematically.

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Um typically, what you find is the opposite. The areas immediately around your treated hotspots, uh we we call those a catchment area. Crime actually falls, goes down. Um they benefit. Those areas around your hotspots benefit from the hotspot

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treatment itself rather than being a place for crime to displace. Um and we certainly saw that in Tacoma. Um and we saw the same in Salt Lake City. And so, that brings us to uh kind of where we are in Fort Worth right now. Um

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That is a draft of the uh uh crime plan as I've sketched it out here this morning. Um uh In great the the plan itself has a significant amount of detail and and citations to the literature and uh and detail on the implementation of these of

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these three primary strategies. Um So, Hot Spots policing started as I mentioned in April of 2026. We are we just started our second treatment period. So, April and May were were period one. June

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1st was the start of period two. Um We again we evaluate crime every 60 days. We made the first set of recommendations for May and June and we made the next set of recommendations for June and July. Based on the on the crime patterns

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reported crime patterns here in Fort Worth. Um and then we're about to look backward to see what happened to crime in those Hot Spots during the first treatment period of May and April and May. Um that mid-term strategy that I mentioned

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a few slides ago. It is appropriate for persistently violent places. Places where you treat them with Hot Spots policing for a period and then maybe they roll over and they're still among your top 10 or 15 the next time and you treat them again.

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And maybe they roll over again. You have to treat them multiple times and they're still among your top 10 or 15 places. Those are the places that are most uh uh relevant for a strategy the application of a strategy like problem oriented

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place based policing. The goal is to identify the underlying conditions. What is it about these places that make them persistently violent? Why do they keep coming up in your top 10 or 15 list every 60 days? The goal is to figure out what those conditions are and then to address those

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underlying conditions. It requires multiple stakeholders besides the police department. Um cross it's an it's an all of government approach really. Requires a lot of coordination and a lot of resources to be brought to bear typically over a an extended period of time.

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These places didn't get to be that way overnight and they typically won't be won't you know that the conditions that cause them to be persistently violent won't be addressed in the near term but it requires a longer term focus. The focus to turn strategy is that

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person place focus strategy that I mentioned. It is really designed to to identify who your most persistently violent offenders are in Fort Worth and to address address those folks through a combination of enhanced prosecution and

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the provision of social services. My team our job is to evaluate your data and we do that relentlessly. We do it every 60 days for hotspots. We do it annually for the other the other strategies that I mentioned.

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We report all of these results publicly. The hotspots data results go into that dashboard that I mentioned that the police department has has access to. And we will undoubtedly be before this group at some time in the future to report out on what the what the impact of the strategies

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have been over the over the previous 12 months. If you're interested and I don't you probably If you like to put yourself to sleep you can read these papers that my team and I have written um related to this crime plan work

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but for now we're happy to take any questions that you like to like to ask us. >> All right, thank you Dr. Smith. I'll start off by asking board are there any questions? Elizabeth. >> One question and it's probably for Chief Garcia. Um

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>> [clears throat] >> I appreciate the the data-driven approach to really drilling down on the areas that we need to to address. Um What assurances can you give the community that this isn't going to feel like to some

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communities that it's coming in and targeting the communities at large as opposed to the violent crime. To speak to the this is not stop and frisk. This is not >> I very much appreciate the question Council member and that's something that

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was born out of the one of the data sets that we had done previously. Is that although crime began going down in the hotspots and calls for service, priority one types of call for service were going down in the crime spots, so too were arrests.

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Arrests went down as crime was going down because the premise of identifying the right places and the right criminal enterprises truly is what makes this different from a a stop and frisk or some type of saturation patrol. We're going to be

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intelligence led and so when we're talking about you know, people places in certain areas, where are your drug houses? Where your illegal gambling facilities? Where are your individuals that have warrants? Specific specific places and individuals and so

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again, this is certainly not stop and frisk and I completely understand the sensitivity of that. This is not saturation and what the data has suggested is as crime goes down, if this is done properly and and intelligence led is arrests also go down.

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>> So when you say it's intelligence so the saturation will be maybe felt but not seen is what I'm >> No, there's no sat It's It's specific to places. Again, when we talk about high vis, that's uh one patrol car with their lights on for

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15 minutes at different times of the day, stopping, talking individuals, uh and just getting to know their community. The other one is when it's offender focused, it's individuals actually having specific information on people and places. >> Got you. >> Chief, it might be helpful to share just

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how small some of these grids actually are. To give, you know, context, it's not A grid might be like half a block, if that big, or one block. >> Well, that's the the whole block. >> Yeah, or even smaller. >> It's It's a football field.

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>> Okay. >> Yeah, football field by a football field. >> Okay. >> One of those size. >> One One of the One of the dynamics again that makes this type of hotspot policing different is it's not The hotspot often times there's a hotspot within the hotspot that we're addressing, which is what makes

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this the grid work differently. It is not a four or five block area that we are in the area of. It actually is very, very specific in in in >> All right, Chief, while you're up there, I guess I'll I'll put this to you, and

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then you can uh talk about it, you know, Dr. Smith, if you want to add something to it, that's fine. Uh So, what we're hearing is that um not a saturation, this is a directed response to a very specific geographic area, okay? So, it's officer-focused.

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Makes sense to me that DRU would be involved with this. From uh and it's difficult to say what amount of time on any given, you know, um hotspot you would have to spend, you know, before you start seeing the crime trends go down, but, you know, this is not

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something that we would have to um sustain for a long period of time, hopefully. So, I guess my question would be as far as the DRU complement of the Fort Worth uh Police Department, that's something sustainable, something that we have uh as as a deployable resource

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without any concerns. >> Oh, no, there it's not There's not going to be a concern from a deployment perspective. Uh their part of their mission, not only as a response to city issues, but also to be directed uh per their name, to be directed response, as well. Uh and so, the we're trying to put them in the best

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place to succeed, but they're not the only tool. There could be um We we've had issues with with late-night entertainment venues that have caused us violent crime. That could be a That That could be a project for Vice if it's an area. There could be drug houses. That

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That's a That'll be an issue for you know, narcs. There could be an issue with gang activity. And so, although DRU is a tool, there are other There are other proactive units that we'd be using to really be surgical. And that's I guess that's the That's the turn that we really want to go. We would be surgical

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about how we go about this work. >> Understood. Thank you, sir. Michael, you have a question, sir? >> Yeah, Chief. Thanks for putting all this together. I was You and I were meeting one day and I was where you were having a meeting about this or just prior to this. My

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question really is I appreciate these efforts of targeting specific area high-crime areas. What should the average citizen that is not in one of these areas expect in response times and other resources that police [clears throat] may or may

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not have in the area? Will they see a change in what they now experience or or what? >> Well, that's a great question. I think one of the things when we talk about the amount of work that this entails is really the dosage. And as you heard Dr.

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Smith talk about the areas that we're treating. We're not treating them all. We're treating certain areas. And what this also does not do is it also doesn't take the onus of off of our commanders to deal with issues that are occurring in their areas and utilizing resources as well.

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And so, although this is specific to specific areas of violent crime to ensure that our crime trends continue quite frankly to go down the direction they're going down, but continue to go down for a reason. Continue to go down with strategies. But again, this doesn't take anything away

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from our commanders in other parts of the city to deal with other levels of crime that are occurring in in divisions. >> So, ultimately they should see no difference in response times in calls being answered. Obviously, response

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times and the resources that are in their neighborhoods as this plan moves forward. >> No, they should not. Now, when it comes to response times, again, response times are cyclical and it really does depend on the dosage that that we're going through it and we're actually going about a project on

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response times actually as we speak with regards to that. But, as far as the day-to-day services that they're getting, they should not be taken away from our other communities. >> Great. Thank you. >> All right. Any other questions going

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once more around the table? >> All right. Thank you, Chief. Thank you, Dr. Smith. Appreciate that update. Very informative. All right. Next up has Chief Deputy Chief Sean Conjura who's going to give us a state and local laws

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that govern e-bikes, scooters, and similar devices. Report. >> Good afternoon, Mayor Pro Tem and Public Safety Committee members. Today, we're going to talk about electric bikes, scooters, and similar

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devices. Uh next slide. Get the next Got my little clicker here. There we go. So, on March 3rd Councilman Laws Dorf brought up a question about

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e-bikes and what homeowners associations could do to regulate these types of vehicles in their neighborhoods, which led to us creating this PowerPoint as an educational tool. I'm I'm really wanting to get through this pretty quick and give a good overview so we can get into the

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questions part so we can talk a little bit little about the problems we're seeing across the city. Um current city of Fort Worth ordinances uh chapter 22 uh e-bikes are currently governed under the bicycles ordinances,

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um which are safety equipment, proper operation, prohibited conduct, reckless operation, and the helmet laws. Uh this slide gives you an idea of a variety of the electric vehicles that

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are out there, not all of them. Most of these are legal. Um and as you can see we have like the class one e-bike, which is a pedal-assisted e-bike, doesn't travel very fast. A class two e-bike, which has a throttle and a pedal assist, goes a

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little bit faster. Then we have the class three e-bike, which uh can go up to 28 mph, which under Texas statute right now, that is the maximum uh speed that can travel

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on the roadways without being a licensed vehicle. Uh we have some mopeds, some scooters, some skateboards. There's electric skateboards out there that that uh we see about downtown quite a bit. Um then we get into the off-road only

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electric vehicles. All of these vehicles are absolutely prohibited from traveling on sidewalks, on public property. They're strictly off-road use only. However, we have seen and encountered every

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single example on this slide operating in the public sphere. Um we work hard to address those. Um if you look at the one uh third row down, farthest

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on the left, you see electric off-road scooter. When you see that scooter, that is so similar to what it is legal to operate on the highway. So, you can see where our officers kind of run into, hey, it's better to to stop and check to make

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sure than it is to just let them go cuz some of these vehicles will travel up into the 50-60 mph range and higher. So, when you have young kids operating these, obviously it becomes an issue. Um So, state law

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transportation code 551 regulates bicycles, e-bikes, um where we can operate, age restrictions according to the state. Under this law, it allows us as a municipality, as a city, to enhance those laws.

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Um currently, like I said, uh motor assisted scooters can operate on roadways speed limits of 35 mph or less. There are a few little details like the uh Segways and the hoverboards, they can operate

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on sidewalks. However, if a sidewalk is not available, state law allows them to operate on roadways less than 30 mph. Now, we can we can regulate that further, but I I brought that as up and as as an example to show you the complexity of

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what we're dealing with with so many different models. And as these things become more commercially available because the production costs have gone down, we're obviously seeing a huge uptick in operation throughout the city. So, um

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when you get into like pocket bikes, mini bikes, as on the previous slide, those are strictly prohibited, can't ever operate anywhere except private property off-road. Um Then we get into the question about homeowner associations. What what can

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homeowner associations do to regulate traffic in their area? So, when park street sidewalks are publicly dedicated and maintained by the city, obviously regulation falls under our state law and municipal ordinance.

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Um HOAs that have privately owned property, you know, such as the common areas, sidewalks, trails, parking lots, that ownership is retained by the HOA, they can enforce their own house rules, so to

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speak, on governing whether or not they want these types of vehicles to operate in their community. Um Some of those restrictions can be speed limits, uh age restrictions, uh restrictions on operation on trails,

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uh prohibiting high-powered devices, um designated riding areas if they have a green space that's owned by the HOA, they want to do something like that, that's certainly in the purview of the HOA, and operating hours. Uh

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These restrictions would obviously be adopted through the HOA board policies and amendments according to each HOA if they chose to go that route. >> Deputy Chief Canjury, can I interrupt you on that moment? I just don't want us to have to back up, but this is something that I've asked before and and

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you're beginning to address it. Uh one thing that I didn't see as far as an electric conveyance is is a golf cart. Now, you know, to your point, and HOAs and you know, big, you know, planned developments, you have a lot of that use. And I understand what you're saying, you know, when it comes to privately owned areas where they could

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operate, but when they do venture out into the uh you know, public right-of-ways. Right in the beginning of this. >> Yes, sir. >> What is generally the approach of of PD when it comes to enforcing them? >> For PD with us, if we see a golf golf cart out operating, we're going to

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educate them first. Obviously, state law does allow for operation of golf carts under certain conditions in certain types of developments. Um Generally, when we have an issue with those, it's because someone gets out

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into a roadway with greater than 35 mph speeds, areas where it would require you to be registered, licensed to operate a vehicle in those conditions, which golf carts aren't. So, when they We've had the

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issues in the past on the west side, people crossing over Ulen Street, you know, going back and forth from the neighborhood to the school and stuff, which we were very effective then at educating the public and letting them know, "Hey, I know that state law and regulations say, 'Hey, you can operate here,

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but you can't travel across here to operate in an area where you're not allowed to do that.'" Um Golf carts is a little bit more of a complex issue because there are There are some ways that and some laws on the books that

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allow for further golf cart operation. Most wouldn't pertain to the city of Fort Worth, like agricultural use and things like that. So, it's something we'd have to clean up and specify in the ordinances if you really wanted to dive deep into what golf cart usage is.

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But, I >> Yeah. Understood. >> Does that help? >> Yes, sir, it does. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> So, back to the common community concerns, high speeds on sidewalks and trails, conflicts with pedestrians, young riders. Young riders

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is a big issue, and that's for us as a police department, that's our greatest area of concern is the safety of these kids. And, you know, we were all kids once. We want kids to enjoy their activities outside, but we also need to educate them on the operation

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and the dangers. And unfortunately, some of these devices that are marketed really exceed the capacity of what, you know, especially smaller kids should be on, should be riding. So, another thing we need to look out and they're easily modified. A kid can

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grab a e-bike and boost the power pretty quick relatively easily. Um anyway, what we can enforce reckless operation, traffic violations, unsafe equipment, illegal operation. Uh we've covered covered the potential

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areas for policy consideration. Um our primary ordinance is just regulate bicycles as e-bikes. Um questions. Let's just jump to the end. >> All right. Any questions from the board? Elizabeth, Michael.

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>> Good. Yeah. No, hey uh Chief Canjura, um I want to make sure what I brought up earlier, I didn't see it mentioned in there, at least with helmet laws that there were parent parity with bicycles and scooters.

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Um I want to make sure that that's part of this. >> Oh, absolutely. We're working on a a comprehensive update to the ordinance. So, I think that once you look at it and and get it for review, I think you'll like what you see and obviously we can add any community

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concerns and address those further, but we should have something for y'all really soon that covers all this. >> Sounds great. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Chief. >> Thank y'all. Have a good day. >> All right. Next up, Sunny Saxon, their emergency management communications

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department, FIFA World Cup update. >> Uh good afternoon, uh Mayor Pro Tem and council members. Um I just wanted to thank you for providing a few minutes. I'm going to do this really brief. I think we've talked about World Cup a lot. Uh but I do want to update just a little bit on our public safety work. Um

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I will mention that I'm joined today by members of the police department, fire department, emergency management, as well as our 911 team. Um some of them also are actually in Dallas for a uh we'll talk about it in just a second, but a regional last-minute briefing. Um the final briefing is today, so uh but

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we do have time for questions. So, if you have any questions, I'll ask my colleagues to come up and join me. Um I do want to call out just a couple of them uh from the Public Safety Committee point. Um see if I can get that. Can we bring up the presentation there?

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Uh there we go. Okay, so uh we do have a a uh safety and security work group. I know I've talked about the mini work groups before. Um that's co-chaired. Uh it's worthy of mentioning between Police Department, Fire Department, and Emergency Management. So, I just wanted to mention that they have been great

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leaders in that. Um uh we do have the nine matches. I think everybody knows that unless you're living under a rock, right? Uh we do have the first one coming up in nine days. So, June 11th in Mexico City. The final one is July 19th. Um I do want to mention though that there's been various reporting out there

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on how many tickets are sold in all these host cities, how much hotels are um booked. I think uh that is noteworthy when we talk about public safety because we're going to make sure that we have a scale scalable um and adaptable approach, and you'll hear me talk about

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that in just a second. Uh so, we have uh plenty to do. So, for those that are in uh excited about the soccer, there is a lot happening. Uh we do have a base camp hotel um that uh is loading in this week. Um we do have uh

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plenty of our entertainment districts are spilled up and ready. Uh great opportunity for community members as well as visitors that may come in. Uh we've got uh you know, not just Stockyards and Sundance, uh 7th Street,

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I'd also mention pop-up events like near Southside's going to have some of those. And so, I think it's very exciting time. Um and when we think about public safety, we think about uh really interacting with all of these events and keeping everyone safe and fun. So, how have we been planning? Regional

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planning emergency preparedness has been going on for quite some time over 2 and 1/2 years of active planning. That's been with regional partners from the cog to the North Texas organizing committee. Also even our health care partners our local hospitals our trauma

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centers have been involved FEMA's been involved. We've been doing transportation test runs and we've got some happening even this week and exercises. So quite a bit's coming on the bottom line is we are ready from a public safety perspective. And I want to zoom in just for a minute

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and talk about city of Fort Worth preparations. So one thing noteworthy worth highlighting. We had over 60 participants of what we call our coordination group and our executive policy team that met in College Station just last month

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and really practice scenarios from tornadoes to flooding evacuations. Also transportation impacts and you know, when I think about a whole of city response or a one city one team this is probably the best way that you see that when we have to act quickly

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everybody comes together to do that and and coming out of that we have lesson plans and a multi-year exercise plan that we're putting together. So we're really thankful for that. Okay, I just want to hit a couple of the highlights here. I want to talk just for a minute about city of Fort Worth public safety objectives. So we have the regional ones

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and we have the city ones and for us really I mentioned it is about being adaptable and scalable. It's about readiness. Safe and friendly and then also we have other events going on right? So we've got the 250th celebration that we're all thinking about and many different pop-ups. So really we're kind of focused

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on all of the above. So planning and intelligence is an important piece our Fort Worth intelligence exchange. We're very fortunate to have those resources as a fusion center of our own. We will have representation in the joint operations center and you'll see that in just a second. I'll show you what that

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organization looks like but we'll also have representation at the International Police Coordination Center in Virginia. And that's the international community coming together to help feed information to our local teams. So, the bottom line is situational awareness will be there because we're all connected.

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Police Department is focused on our World Cup locations. I mentioned that they're using an instant command structure and unified command. I'll talk about that in just a second, but nearly 100 personnel with eight teams over three shifts are ready to be deployed

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and are actively dedicated to this response. So, we're very appreciative and proud of that work and of those men and women that have come out to help us with that. Fire Department as well. Really for them, I'm reminded about

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during these types of special events, the everyday emergencies continue to occur. So, our fire and EMS partners really are thinking about how do they maintain citywide fire and EMS coverage? How are they there for those that may have an emergency that may not

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be here for a soccer visit, right? They're adapting with a layered posture that has scalable resources based on our Fort Worth special events model. And then also, I want to call out the leadership of the Bureau of Fire

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Prevention and Arson and Bomb Squad. Some of the world-class experts, the best in the business. We have them here in Fort Worth and we're very fortunate for the training and the preparations that they've been doing. Emergency Communications. Our 911 teams

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have also been meeting. We have We've been meeting locally with Tarrant County 911, but also nationally we've been meeting with and internationally. We've been meeting with mega 911 centers, so that's the largest cities in the country and also in Canada. And we've been talking for quite a while about how do you protect

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our communities during these special events. So, we've got surge staffing that's planned for match days. We've got a little bit additional police dispatch support that's planned for special events. Noteworthy is last year we deployed a technology at the end of last year

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to promote equal access for 911 and and allows people that are non-English speaking to be able to communicate readily with our team. So there's over 100 languages that are automatically transcribed and translated. We're very fortunate to have those resources

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for our community. And then lastly want to mention municipal court and marshals. They also have been adapting their operations. We're very fortunate that they are taking opportunities to reassign to increase security needs for city hall as well as critical infrastructure and other event

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operations. So [snorts] they are ready as well. Okay, just real high-level. I'm not going to go into the deep into the weeds here. I just want to mention that we do have what we call instant command structure. I know many of you're familiar with that. We do have joint operations centers, tactical centers,

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and they're all connected. And the bottom line is we need to be ready, sharing information, working together, deploying resources together. And that's the that's the way we stood up our operations regionally and and nationally. Then I'll also mention our joint emergency operations center or the JEOC.

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This is specific to city of Fort Worth. The overall mission focus comes from here. You have daily briefings and situational updates that'll happen. Some of those will be available if you want to kind of zoom in and and hear some of that over the time. Also, I would

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mention that we started what we call virtual operations or standby and we'll be doing that all the way through July 19th. We will have a level two activation, a partial activation on July 3rd and 4th. So that's bodies there in the emergency operations center working

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on behalf of our community. Okay, almost done here. Grants and cost tracking. Just wanted to mention that that's an important component. It's possible we'll get some reimbursement for some public safety costs. We're working with the cog on that. And uh those are uh reimbursement for

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specific FIFA-related activities. And so, we're working with them on that now. And finally, um last uh earlier, I'd say last month, I guess it was in March, we released a new community notification uh system. Uh really, we emphasize staying

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informed, connected, and ready. So, you we encourage the community to sign up for emergency alerts. You can do that by either going to the QR code, texting start to 77295, or you can go to fortworthtexas.gov/readyfortworth. I'll give you another website as well.

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It's not on the screen, but um fortworthtexas.gov/soccer2026 is a great way that you can hear more about our soccer uh readiness and how uh everybody's going to have fun in World Cup. So, with that, uh a couple of um uh pictures, I think they took them down,

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but a couple of pictures there from our instant command training, and um we're really proud of the work that all of our team does. So, with that, I'll stand ready for questions, and I might call my colleagues up uh if you have specific questions about police or fire. >> Great, thank you, Sunny. Any questions for anyone?

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We all good? Great condensed uh presentation in the time remaining. Well done. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. >> All right. Okay. Uh before we adjourn, any future agenda item requests? Anyone? >> Nope.

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>> Okay, I think we're all good. With that, stand adjourned at uh 12:25.