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Rika Levin: With the police reform does that sound okay.
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01:34:12.540 --> 01:34:13.110 Karen DAttore: sounds great.
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Rika Levin: We will do that Thank you.
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Karen DAttore: Okay, so, as you all know, we've been working on the police reform and reinvention initiative for some time we've had a lot of engagement from the Community and the committee that's been designated to work on the project, and with that i'd like.
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Karen DAttore: To turn this over to Richard Brady for matrix to provide a presentation on the report that the Committee has produced.
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Richard Brady: Thank you very much i'm mayor 11 members of the board, I was the project manager in this assignment and with me i've got other people who will be participating in this presentation from.
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Richard Brady: matrix we've got Veronica Lopez and Brady and john scruggs and from the working committee we've got gabby Hamilton and my to Garcia Jennifer Cooper era and cannot be Canada so we're all going to participate in this, we were very mindful of the time delayed our.
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Richard Brady: This is our first opportunity to provide a summary of the report that we have collectively put together here, so we thought we put together a short summary for you and answer your questions, so, if I can share my screen i've got a PowerPoint in support of this.
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01:35:28.410 --> 01:35:28.950 Richard Brady: Okay.
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Richard Brady: So just to start off and give an overview for the project die and awake of killings of George floyd and briana Taylor and others.
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Richard Brady: The governor's office to issue executive order to have three which created in every community in New York State police reform and reinvention collaborative.
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Richard Brady: The process started in the summer, the board created working committee and authorize the hiring of a consultant, which was us to facilitate this process for ossining.
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Richard Brady: We have been meeting, since we started this project involving matrix in November, the committee's and various subcommittees we've created a met several times.
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Richard Brady: And so significant public input was developed as we went through this which i'll describe in a second.
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Richard Brady: So we had five public input sessions, as part of this, just before the holidays and early this month we started the process with a Spanish language meeting I had a general open meeting on a weekend had a meeting that was.
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Richard Brady: For the African American Community meaning of LGBT LGBT Q plus community and.
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Richard Brady: meeting with ossining high school students as well overall over 200 people participated in the public listening sessions that we had and we got a lot of input we also had a.
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Richard Brady: An online survey, both in English and Spanish to obtain broader input from the Community, and there were over 800 responses to the Community survey.
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Richard Brady: On the report has an extensive listing of the input that we got from all of us, these public mechanisms, but key themes that came from this process, including the need to address bias and policing and the need to have police accountability to the public.
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Richard Brady: As a transition to the suggested recommendations that are roseman so I want to say a few more words about the working committee, so we met several times.
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Richard Brady: From November until just a week ago to discuss the the process, as well as to develop the suggested recommendations here and important part of this process, so we could delve deeply into this.
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Richard Brady: The areas that were defined by executive order two or three and to come up with some suggested recommendations for consideration by the board we're in four areas governance, which also includes.
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Richard Brady: Various other elements associated with transparency and other aspects, looking at policies and procedures in policing.
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Richard Brady: Looking at internal operations and practices and hiring and training are the areas that we mostly focused in so what i'm going to do now is i'm going to turn it over to pairs of.
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Richard Brady: representative from our working committee and from matrix consulting group to talk about the things that we've come up with, for your consideration and we're going to start out first with.
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Richard Brady: Jennifer cabrera and Ian we're going to talk about oversight compliance and transparency so Jennifer do you want to take it over.
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Richard Brady: Oh, I skipped governance, thank you.
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Richard Brady: Is Jennifer not on.
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Richard Brady: Okay, and do you want to take this 10.
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Ian Brady: Good So the first the series of recommendations that we made and submitted Eric suggested recommendations that we looked at and subcommittees to create a new Commission.
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Ian Brady: or a new board that would function as the police board of Commissioners, and so the purpose that would be would be to review policies to be able to have OBD report various metrics things like.
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Ian Brady: The diversity of people that the department is looking to hire stop data things like that, essentially, providing.
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Ian Brady: board for us really has a dedicated focus in reviewing police activity and reviewing.
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Ian Brady: Changes to police policies that are in so we looked at a number of different ways of how that could work how that could be structured.
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Ian Brady: And ultimately kind of settled on one that would be closed at five Community members, in addition to to serve on the board of trustees and so two different alternatives for how.
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Ian Brady: People could be elected board of Commissioners outside of the board of trustees slots, so one could be either the mayor nominating that those board approving simple majority or to habits to that initially it functions in that manner, but thereafter elections.
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Ian Brady: take place to let the Members so.
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Ian Brady: it's not determined yet as far as how often the port would meet but hope you'd be making regular reports.
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Ian Brady: So oversight, so in this area, we looked a lot at the CBC rv park functions as a complainer do board and how we can make it work better.
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Ian Brady: So the first of these is to remove op representation on the CBC rb so that would instead be total of five seats, with one alternate, in addition, so the reason for this is that.
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Ian Brady: For an Oversight Board like this to really achieve its goal of being something that develops trust in the police complaint process then until us trust in.
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Ian Brady: Police internal accountability it really truly does need to be external in independent it's very uncommon for there to be police representation in the voting Members on a complaint review board, because if you have police on that board then it's not truly an external board.
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Ian Brady: By having it be external idiots able to function as I kind of independent check that in in most cases of the country comes to the same conclusion as the police internal process those kind of giving that extra degree of trust.
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Ian Brady: So in addition we looked at one alternative that would cost additional which would be to hire an outside investigator to review complaint cases, rather than having to be police investigators give the presentation to the board.
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Ian Brady: This is something that other jurisdictions in westchester county are looking at, so there is opportunity to either have it out and look at.
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Ian Brady: and basically like a per diem basis or something like that, but it's one alternative to look at further So in addition actually codifying it that the village Council or the deputy is in attendance at every CPC or be meeting certain saying that has been taking place.
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Ian Brady: Since Kobe but just actually codifying that making sure that some of the continuous in the future.
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Ian Brady: Additionally, changing the codes that that the location of the meetings is.
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Ian Brady: can be at other places, besides that odd facilities just again, ensuring that it's an external, independent process that there's no either perception or kind of image of it being part of the police internal process, additionally, making it easy to file a complaint.
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Ian Brady: What we thought was important, so increasing the time that anyone can follow up went from 90.
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Ian Brady: To 120 days, having different alternatives for being able to submit complaints, whether it's online or dropping a platform, not a police station, but at another village property additionally Having said that, the timeframe for complaints is actually.
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Ian Brady: specified in additionally that.
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Ian Brady: If the complaint takes longer than 30 days to be investigated that please provide justification for why that extent timeframes good.
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Jennifer Cabrera: hi i'm back i'm so sorry I I had stepped away to use the restroom um.
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Ian Brady: Why not take it from here transparency.
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Jennifer Cabrera: Absolutely um so on the transparency piece, one of the big things that we've noticed other police departments are doing is.
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Jennifer Cabrera: The names and contact information, at least for for high ranking officers are on their websites, those are published.
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Jennifer Cabrera: So we'd like to do that, you know, starting from the rank of lieutenant and above just so that people know who they can contact in the police department, I think a lot of people do have.
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Jennifer Cabrera: The chiefs contact information, but not necessarily other officers within the op op ED who are in leadership positions.
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Jennifer Cabrera: The second thing that we're seeing in in quite a lot of other municipalities, and this is around the country is that they are publishing their policy manuals online so that anyone can can view it whenever they'd like to.
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Jennifer Cabrera: And so that's really a great a great.
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Jennifer Cabrera: A great way to increase transparency and trust in the department and, additionally, because we know that not everyone has Internet access, at the same rates and may not be able to.
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Jennifer Cabrera: To get that information online we'd like to make it possible to get a hard copy either at the police department or a village hall and make that free of charge, because more than likely.
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Jennifer Cabrera: If you don't necessarily have Internet access, you may also not be able to pay for for a large.
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Jennifer Cabrera: You know printed copy of of the policy manual we don't think that'll be a lot of people who are looking for that, but we want to make it an option for those who might.
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Jennifer Cabrera: And the last one is to tie in with that recommendation that we have on governance we'd like to have the new police, the new board of Commissioners.
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Jennifer Cabrera: Having a role in reviewing the policies of the police department that's something that has mostly been left to op ED on its own so we'd like to have a little bit more more public input on that.
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Jennifer Cabrera: So, most of these.
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Jennifer Cabrera: Most of these recommendations that we've made in this section in the governance section.
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Jennifer Cabrera: have been the result of the of the survey that we did and of the public meetings that we had where people mentioned, you know that it was difficult to make complaints, they weren't really confident that, if they made a complaint that it would that it would be.
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Jennifer Cabrera: handled appropriately um and then Lastly, there were a lot of questions just about you know how the department was working so we'd like to get that information out to people on the website.
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Jennifer Cabrera: So that they they feel like they have more information and and you know just having that information can increase trust.
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Richard Brady: Thank you Jennifer and the next area where we took.
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Richard Brady: The the executive order two or three and the things that they wanted local governments to focus on relates to policies and procedures and one of our subcommittees dealt with that and gabrielle hammond Hamilton will be summarizing that along with john's krug so getting.
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Gabrielle Hamilton: high, and so it was a very interesting group we had about 140 policies to review and some of them were two pages, but some of them were like six or 13.
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Gabrielle Hamilton: There was one, there were a couple that would even more than that, so.
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Gabrielle Hamilton: Our committee was not able to have the full discussions of every single policy, there were two very important ones on the children and the crisis team that we still have to work on and there were a couple that we have to discuss.
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Gabrielle Hamilton: We did come up with some blanket ideas about language, and so, as the previous committee, we also agree that the policies and procedures needs to be on the website, because you know that's best practice and is it turns out that's what.
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Gabrielle Hamilton: Community Members would like as well.
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Gabrielle Hamilton: We also it, we should feel we should develop anti bias free and anti racist policing policies, and what that means is that literally in each policy.
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Gabrielle Hamilton: You could there were places where you could stick in one sentence that would just say include that language so that is more is comprehensive throughout it repeat repeat repeat.
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Gabrielle Hamilton: The third thing was to reduce the perception of cooperation, the department should modify his general orders to the op ED officers will not respond with ice unless they're called to the location.
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Gabrielle Hamilton: And then you know this, of course, was something that people felt very strongly about, and so.
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Gabrielle Hamilton: You know it's we're going to have a firm policy on that moving forward and then development policy to require reporting misconduct by department personnel.
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Gabrielle Hamilton: Because, as the previous committee also talked about people were having a lot of difficulty making complaints, and so we wanted to make that easier for everyone.
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Richard Brady: Okay, thank you gabby john john do you have anything to add.
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Jscruggs: No, I think that covers all of it.
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Kendall Buchanan: At this point.
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Richard Brady: Okay, the third area was rather broad and related to internal operations and and practices within the police department and.
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Richard Brady: Our Committee dealt with a wide range of things and we have a wide range of recommendation so we're going to have Kendall Buchanan take the lead in making summary of this part of the subcommittee work.
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Kendall Buchanan: Thank you, Richard.
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Kendall Buchanan: The internal operations and practices.
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Kendall Buchanan: committee came up with a very.
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Kendall Buchanan: interesting and unique suggestions, the first one being to work with the westchester county neighboring community.
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Kendall Buchanan: And nonprofit agencies to develop mental health homeless and substance abuse crisis response units.
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Kendall Buchanan: We felt that that was important would give us a lot of support.
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Kendall Buchanan: You know, for our police department.
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Kendall Buchanan: In those issues also to fully provide with crisis intervention training to improve response.
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Kendall Buchanan: We also dealt with creating a voluntary response registry, which will assist emergency communications and responders this has been effectively done down in yonkers we.
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Kendall Buchanan: Looked at one of their programs and.
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Kendall Buchanan: It is work pretty effectively down there, so we thought that it could be a pretty good idea to have.
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Kendall Buchanan: To implement new or improved the existing Community policy efforts, including police officer less ons with community groups greater presence at the Community events.
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Kendall Buchanan: involved more meaningful presence in the ossining school system and a lot of the recommendations that came out of that were specific so specifically.
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Kendall Buchanan: We thought about establishing a permanent coalition comprised of residents and police officers to work together, specifically on community policing.
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Kendall Buchanan: The coalition would be comprised of three residents from each segment of the Community.
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Kendall Buchanan: With a pilot with one police officer for every three residents.
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Kendall Buchanan: The main purpose of the coalition, would be to ensure and define application and concept of the Community pool of community policing in their various segments of the Community.
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Kendall Buchanan: Also, to find creative ways of Community engagement in the area of social events, as well as social service efforts.
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Kendall Buchanan: Also to explore avenues of outreach and new approaches to the areas of the Community most prone to criminal activity.
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Kendall Buchanan: And, finally, to.
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Kendall Buchanan: explore efforts to improve profile of policing.
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Kendall Buchanan: As perceived by youth and order to promote career possibilities for youth, primarily in the high school ages.
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Kendall Buchanan: Those were some of the things that came out of that we also.
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Kendall Buchanan: dealt with the Spanish speaking population to develop a public awareness campaign in both English and Spanish to explain the op eds role with respect to ice activities, I think that was touched on before.
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Kendall Buchanan: and
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Kendall Buchanan: To develop an officer mental health program that includes counseling with telepathic i'm sorry.
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Kendall Buchanan: Tele therapy options and early intervention Program.
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Richard Brady: Okay, thank you kindle um, I think, unlike almost any of the other recommendations that have been made in this process, this is.
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Richard Brady: One of has one of the areas that you can't do on your own alternative response is going to take a cooperative effort with.
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Richard Brady: Either the county or neighboring communities or nonprofit agencies or some combination of that and so as a result.
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Richard Brady: While some of these suggested recommendations can be accomplished in a relatively short timeframe, others are going to take a longer period of time, and this would be one of them, so our last area is hiring and training so minor Garcia and john scruggs again are going to summarize this.
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Mayte Garcia: Alright, so I was on the hiring and training Subcommittee, as well as other subcommittees but I will be presenting for this one. 722
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Mayte Garcia: So one of the things we talked about on the committee that we also got as Jennifer mentioned, we did get our information based off of what we heard from the Community meetings, as well as what we read in the recommendations.
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Mayte Garcia: Once we once we saw what was on the.
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Mayte Garcia: The first one is to work to increase diversity in the department hiring and on promotional processes so.
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Mayte Garcia: And we want to make sure that our police department or police force looks and represents our Community better in terms of statistics we have started was right here, so our currently our police department is 71.9% white and 35.7% of the village.
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Mayte Garcia: Is white so that is not a number that represents our Community, the same for Hispanic is 44.3%.
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Mayte Garcia: Of the whole village and only 15.7% in the police department and for the black Community it's 13.5% of the whole.
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Mayte Garcia: village and only 12.2% in the police department, so we want to make sure that our police department is more representative of our
Community, as well as the languages spoken here.
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Mayte Garcia: Our police department currently has eight Spanish speaking police police officers one Portuguese one fellow Russian and so we want to make sure that our police department also has.
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Mayte Garcia: The languages and the percentages that amount to our Community.
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Mayte Garcia: The second point is that the work, work with Austin in high school to start a program to introduce high school students to the Austin and police department.
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Mayte Garcia: So we did have a meeting with us and in high school students and they did have a lot of concerns, as well as suggestions, and so one of the things that I mostly.
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Mayte Garcia: took from it was that ossining high school students did not feel safe when around ossining police to part the went around asking police officers.
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Mayte Garcia: In school or even around the Community, and so they don't understand their presence or their role in the schools, and so we need to bridge that gap right and make sure that they understand why they're there are they really helping is the role of this school resource officer.
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Mayte Garcia: really necessary or is or is there, something that we need to do as a community and a school district.
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Mayte Garcia: to bridge that gap because it's not helping right now with the Community relationship, and then the third is the types of trainings that we feel police the ossining police department would benefit from and we're recommending that that's done on a multi year training plan as.
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Mayte Garcia: Mr Brady said, there are it's it's not something that can be done very quickly, and so we are suggesting that it'd be done in a multi year.
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Mayte Garcia: plan so that we can have at least certain amount of officers trained in each area, and then we can buy we're going to try and come up with a timeframe.
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Mayte Garcia: Of by when we would want them to be trained in the whole police department in these area, so we have anti racism in policing implicit bias de escalation.
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Mayte Garcia: Procedural justice of cultural competency handling protests and crisis intervention, training and actually handling protest was suggested by.
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Mayte Garcia: Actually handling protests and crisis intervention training were both suggested by one of the police officers so interestingly OBD also feels like they would benefit from more training and would like more training in certain areas.
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Richard Brady: john do you have anything to add.
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Jscruggs: No Sir that covers all of what we talked about.
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Richard Brady: Okay, where do we go from here so first of all, obviously there's a lot more than a report, we tried to make a brief summary, but a comprehensive summary as well.
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Richard Brady: I think it's important to recognize that this is not the end of the process, but it's not the beginning either there's lots of work that remains to be done.
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Richard Brady: And a lot of it needs to be done in the next couple.
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Richard Brady: of months and that's going to fall on a couple of different areas working backwards from the date that the state has required to get each community's response to executive two or three is April 1 so we have two months to.
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Richard Brady: Publicly review this report and have it accepted after review by the board themselves, so the first step is our public review process and we have.
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Richard Brady: come up with a process of having public meetings on this draft report on February 6 February 20 in February 27 one, these are all Saturday mornings ones not too far away.
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Richard Brady: one's a general session one is focusing on the African American Community and one is in Spanish, in addition, as we have been doing through the entire.
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Richard Brady: process that we've been involved in we created an email address that people have been making comments on and telephone hotline both in English and Spanish and we've gotten many messages and we're going to keep them.
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Richard Brady: Open throughout the review period so once the review period is over, then we turn it over to the board and then there's a public acceptance part of it.
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Richard Brady: and looking at your schedule the process that seems to work and still have public review of the report is that we get you a
revised report.
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Richard Brady: Based on what we've given you so far, and after the review of the public, we give that to you by March 5, then we have another work session, much like this one on march 10 to review it.
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Richard Brady: That would give us some opportunity to take your input and come up with a final report and then you would review that a little legislative session and March 17.
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Richard Brady: If that timeframe is a little too tight, we have the option of a special meeting on march 24th and that still is going to be pretty tied to get it by April 1 this is doable I think we've got a plan to make it happen.
758
02:01:03.240 --> 02:01:03.780 Richard Brady: But.
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Richard Brady: As I said, the ball is starting to roll now that we have given you the draft report so on that, let me turn it over to you and answer any questions that you may have.
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Rika Levin: Thank you, Richard and everyone else so nice to see you all again um and for the hard work, my first question is always do we need to keep this up, or do we want to go well, I guess we're going back to gallery.
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Rika Levin: i'll take that question right off the board so um Thank you everyone i'm really amazing um we've had.
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Rika Levin: amazing work and the amount of work that you've done there are many, many municipalities and I have called some that did a couple public meetings already done did a couple public meetings they've got.
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Rika Levin: half a dozen bullet points look Omar Lopez it stated this months ago New York state is made up of communities that have 38 people for 55 square miles and upstate New York, the smallest municipality.
764
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Rika Levin: To buffalo, which is a college town that's gone through a lot of issues to brooklyn New York and.
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Rika Levin: We can go through all the bs and the bcs and they're all different and we're different and that's why it's done at a very local level and we're looking a lot of the faces that represent the working committee.
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Rika Levin: That was appointed the mayor and Omar Lopez have been.
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Rika Levin: intimately involved representing the board, and I took over as Mayor on the first, and therefore I have joined.
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Rika Levin: The meeting, so this is this is great stuff I have a couple of comments general rule of thumb is to go around the room to the other trustees to see if there are some big questions.
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Rika Levin: The process will be discussed at the end, but anybody have macro its first time we're seeing it and hearing it, this is the sort of.
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Rika Levin: On the timeline, this is the first step to present to the board of trustees because it is the board that ultimately votes on it's not an up and down vote generally it is.
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Rika Levin: More public hearings and we're going to vote on the plan that we want to have there may be some additions made some things taken off we don't know yet we're starting the conversation now from the committee anybody my colleagues on the board with questions comments i'm sure there are.
772
02:03:36.570 --> 02:03:37.560 Omar Lopez: So I can start.
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Omar Lopez: i've been i've been like the mayor said i've been working on this, since its inception, and also want to extend gratitude to all the folks on the working committee and everybody else in the Community, that has contributed one question that I had that is not yet clear to me, is.
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Omar Lopez: We have this plan that we have a draft of, and there are the recommendations that you heard tonight.
775
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Omar Lopez: And those recommendations were a result of the all of the work that had been done up to this point.
776
02:04:14.970 --> 02:04:17.730 Omar Lopez: And I they.
777
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Omar Lopez: They were done in interested like responding to issues that whomever it is that's making.
778
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Omar Lopez: These observations is seeing now what's come to us, and when it gets to the board of trustees you go from a kind of divergent path where you start from an idea, and you come up with as many ideas, as you can to try to solve issues to know a convergent.
779
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Omar Lopez: place, so we are trying to figure out what what is, what are we actually going to be doing, and so my question with that unnecessarily long preamble is.
780
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Omar Lopez: Whatever is in the plan.
781
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Omar Lopez: Does that mean that we, as the board of trustees are saying to the state, yes, we are going to be doing all of these things, or are we saying here are all the things that the Community wants us to do here, the recommendations.
782
02:05:10.350 --> 02:05:16.830
Omar Lopez: We may do some we may not do others, but this is way before the Community asked us to do
783
02:05:17.250 --> 02:05:25.110
Omar Lopez: To me, that question is important because it's going to it would really shape you take one of the first recommendations which has changed changed that we have to change in our.
784
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Omar Lopez: village charter from making the board of trustees police commissioner's to having this additional body, so if we were to move forward with just that recommendation much less any of the others, it would require.
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Omar Lopez: A lot of conversation and much more than we would have time my sense is to hammer out between now and the end of March, so that question is starting with Richard and then it to whomever.
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Richard Brady: Okay, thank you i'll take the first crack at it um so the, as I said, toward the end of this presentation, the conclusion of this process initiate another process, so this is, indeed, as you put it.
787
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Richard Brady: A series of policy commitments or initiatives or goals that the Ford supports for implementation for.
788
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Richard Brady: The village, so this is not an implementation blame for the village that has to come next and whether it's the working committee or some other committee or committee of the board at some process needs to.
789
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Richard Brady: initiate which takes each of the areas that you have accepted as part of the plan, a process for developing whose.
790
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Richard Brady: Decisions about who's going to do what by when how what kind of steps need to happen when you expect it to be implemented, what you expect that the other end so that that process comes after that.
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Omar Lopez: Right, but I think my main question, though, is there's a difference between because that makes a lot of sense but there's a difference between setting up this new Commission I, how do you do it obviously doesn't have to be in this plan does that tie it's part of the implementation plan.
792
02:06:58.500 --> 02:06:59.940
Omar Lopez: But shouldn't happen at all.
793
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Omar Lopez: Maybe that's something that we as a board of trustees go, you know why we don't want to do that.
794
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Omar Lopez: No so then does it does it get part of it doesn't get added as an addendum like fewer helpful suggestions or recommendations from the committee.
795
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Omar Lopez: or from this process that the board isn't choosing to implement at this point, but they may be future boards may want to or or whatever your thoughts.
796
02:07:22.740 --> 02:07:29.790
Richard Brady: I don't think there's any clear experience in other communities that answer your question because they've gone in different directions.
797
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Richard Brady: i've looked at many of them across the state is, many of them predate us and some of them are 15 pages long, and some of them are 300 pages long
798
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Richard Brady: And everything in between so most of them are much more general and much less specific than what we've come up with here, but none of them, none of them have an implementation process, but so sometimes the board action is the appendix.
799
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Omar Lopez: got it, so I guess, to me, because what I can see happening is.
800
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Omar Lopez: The Committee and the Community going through all this effort right, resulting in all these recommendations.
801
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Omar Lopez: And then we, as the board of trustees say half of these are either too expensive or viable or we're not interested, or whatever.
802
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Omar Lopez: And then you end up with half of them, and in the Community goes but wait a minute that's not what we signed up for you did you know, so I just want to be clear on the outset, before we start making any edits to.
803
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Omar Lopez: This was a board white what that would look like.
804
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Richard Brady: So let me give you.
805
02:08:30.240 --> 02:08:36.420
Richard Brady: The the shared service idea, on the joint response on the mental health homelessness and those kinds of situations.
806
02:08:37.320 --> 02:08:42.240
Richard Brady: You don't know what can come out of that you don't know if any of your neighbors are interested you don't know if it's financially feasible.
807
02:08:42.750 --> 02:08:46.110
Richard Brady: You don't know if the county is willing to have differential risk.
808
02:08:46.680 --> 02:08:51.480
Richard Brady: capabilities, based on a community that wants to have this kind of service versus another one that doesn't.
809
02:08:51.750 --> 02:08:58.260
Richard Brady: But you can at least this is a goal if you feel that this is important, and you can say yes, police officers, even with CIT.
810
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Richard Brady: crisis intervention training don't have all the skills and programmatic connections that somebody who comes from that background, has so you get to a process where you.
811
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Richard Brady: test the waters in the region, and with the county and look at the financial feasibility and make a decision later, but this could still be a goal in the in the report.
812
02:09:20.100 --> 02:09:20.640 Stuart E. Kahan: asked you.
813
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Rika Levin: May, thank you stood I actually think that there is an actual task so do you want to share some thoughts.
814
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Stuart E. Kahan: Well, I just want I wanted to make mayor and trustee low pitch, to answer your question.
815
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Stuart E. Kahan: And it's clear in the governor's guidance document at the very end.
816
02:09:38.520 --> 02:09:45.570
Stuart E. Kahan: The Board is here now to review the recommendations here with the public has to say.
817
02:09:46.260 --> 02:09:52.620
Stuart E. Kahan: revise those recommendations and if they're not adopting certain recommendations from the working committee.
818
02:09:52.950 --> 02:09:58.890
Stuart E. Kahan: To explain why they haven't adopted those recommendations, the recommendations are not simply.
819
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Stuart E. Kahan: We didn't just get a 57 page report and we slap the villages cover on it and we send it up to all the names, with a certification from the mayor it's not how it works at all.
820
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Stuart E. Kahan: There must be a determination by this board as to which of those recommendations and perhaps others that might come through the public process.
821
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Stuart E. Kahan: are to be are to be considered and and to be you know follow up followed up on so that's that's you know that's important.
822
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Stuart E. Kahan: You know i'm not going to go through the individual ones here, there are some which have significant legal issues within them.
823
02:10:41.760 --> 02:10:45.420
Stuart E. Kahan: which create their own problems and that's something I will discuss with the board.
824
02:10:45.840 --> 02:10:56.400
Stuart E. Kahan: Because that's a matter that you know, has to be gone through, but it is important to note that, ultimately, the decision on which recommendations formulate the plan is that of the board of trustees.
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Stuart E. Kahan: And, but it is important to communicate to the public and I included in that the working committee, you know which recommendations are taken up on in which we're not in those which were not why they were not.
826
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Stuart E. Kahan: Because that's that's what the that's what the governor's reporting the governor's guidance document provides.
827
02:11:15.930 --> 02:11:16.290 Omar Lopez: Thank you.
828
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Rika Levin: Omar you muted was that your single.
829
02:11:23.910 --> 02:11:24.780 Rika Levin: last comment.
830
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Omar Lopez: yeah i'd like to give space for my colleagues.
831
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Rika Levin: Okay i'm sort of looking at the gallery i'm seeing Dana did you have something to add or am I just seeing.
832
02:11:37.350 --> 02:11:38.100 Rika Levin: Your mute.
833
02:11:40.740 --> 02:11:41.250 Dana White: All right.
834
02:11:42.630 --> 02:11:43.200 Dana White: um.
835
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Dana White: we're talking so there would be a lot of civilian oversight, there would be.
836
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Dana White: The citizen complaint review Board, which would be all civilians right.
837
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Dana White: And a cup and then there would be if you were to do a new police Commission that would be civilians as well right post a couple of board of trustees and that would eventually become an elected position.
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Dana White: Right, and I think there was another place where there would be delayed oversight so i'm just you know, I think that, which is fine, I mean that's you know that's fine, but I just worry there could be overlapping redundancies in some of these oversight.
839
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Dana White: oversight committees The other thing is the voluntary response registry what is what is that.
840
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Richard Brady: it's designed to have information available to emergency responders not just police also firefighters and emergency medical personnel.
841
02:12:49.110 --> 02:12:54.240
Richard Brady: about the the residents in in a House, for example, where there may be.
842
02:12:54.660 --> 02:13:10.440
Richard Brady: Somebody was special mental health needs so that they need to be aware, about factors about reactions from people as they respond that they should not misinterpret as a hostile action, as has happened in many communities around the country.
843
02:13:10.710 --> 02:13:19.920
Dana White: But what is it so the registry is a household would go on and say we have this situation if there's a problem, please be aware of that.
844
02:13:20.130 --> 02:13:20.520 Richard Brady: Yes.
845
02:13:20.700 --> 02:13:21.150 Dana White: It would be.
846
02:13:21.720 --> 02:13:22.860
Dana White: All that goes on and.
847
02:13:23.010 --> 02:13:25.350
Richard Brady: it's a voluntary and it would be the household yes.
848
02:13:26.700 --> 02:13:34.920
Dana White: Because I know there's been a lot of issues with mental health calls or that with better mental health issues and they escalate into.
849
02:13:36.030 --> 02:13:37.140 Dana White: Situations right.
850
02:13:38.940 --> 02:13:40.350
Dana White: Okay well that's where you know.
851
02:13:41.730 --> 02:13:42.810 Dana White: I think the ice.
852
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Dana White: You know I is a very emotional situation i've heard the chief explain.
853
02:13:51.180 --> 02:14:02.430
Dana White: Why they go on the ice why they go on a with is or why they go to the same location and he had a pretty compelling reason and it wasn't that.
854
02:14:04.440 --> 02:14:14.340
Dana White: they're participating or helping in any way it's that they're observing and they're basically witnesses and if something goes wrong they're there to observe now I don't know.
855
02:14:15.660 --> 02:14:22.380
Dana White: If that's something you know and and I thought his explanation was very it wasn't something i'd heard before.
856
02:14:23.490 --> 02:14:40.740
Dana White: that a lot of people didn't seem to that they felt the police were complicit with ice and that wasn't, so I think that's definitely something to go into a little bit more why they they began going to the locations where ice was.
857
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Dana White: showing up, I know that is is a federal agency, as I can do whatever they want right right um so they're pretty much the bosses in a situation that they that they appear in but there has to hopefully there's some sort of happy medium, because i'm.
858
02:15:05.340 --> 02:15:11.550
Dana White: You know the sense that they can come in and there's no one really observing what they're doing and.
859
02:15:12.660 --> 02:15:14.400
Dana White: Actually, to me, is.
860
02:15:17.190 --> 02:15:30.780
Dana White: You know, maybe not the worst thing that there be, but you just it just I think that the the awareness, though, the feeling is that it's more than observing it's participating and there has to be a way to sort this out that that.
861
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Dana White: That that everybody can be happy.
862
02:15:35.010 --> 02:15:36.690 Richard Brady: Well, everyone may not be happy, but.
863
02:15:36.750 --> 02:15:44.430
Dana White: um there's two other people um I you know, certainly have no fan of ice coming in and dragging our resident.
864
02:15:45.900 --> 02:15:46.980 Dana White: houses and that
865
02:15:48.210 --> 02:15:48.480 No.
866
02:15:49.770 --> 02:15:59.580
Dana White: But I met things could go terribly wrong sometimes sure um so uh I think that's that's something that we really need to pay attention to.
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Richard Brady: And our recommendation is not to have no response on the part of the police firm sometimes they are needed to help.
868
02:16:08.040 --> 02:16:19.260
Richard Brady: But there's two elements to are dealing with the the ice issue here, one is making sure that there is a policy, about which defines what their support is.
869
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Richard Brady: and its communicated to the public, because everything you said shows that there's a lot of misunderstanding about what that role is, and so you need a public education program to make people aware of what the policy is and developed a policy first.
870
02:16:38.970 --> 02:16:39.360 Dana White: that's it.
871
02:16:40.290 --> 02:16:48.570
Robert M. Fritsche: Just gonna piggyback off of that and I do agree about the policy would ice, but you know the whole purpose is that.
872
02:16:49.440 --> 02:16:58.590
Robert M. Fritsche: They observe because there's a case in point where they got a call and there's before this all was initiated that they would.
873
02:16:59.220 --> 02:17:05.820
Robert M. Fritsche: You know they're not escorting them they're just observing so there's a lot of misconception out there of what's actually going on.
874
02:17:06.720 --> 02:17:20.790
Robert M. Fritsche: So they're observing what's going on, instead of running into a hostile situation, not knowing who's who and they're there for protection of the civilians around what's going on, because you'd never know what could happen.
875
02:17:22.230 --> 02:17:29.070
Robert M. Fritsche: Again it's there's a lot of misconception out there what's going on, and you know.
876
02:17:30.060 --> 02:17:35.490
Robert M. Fritsche: Somebody gets yanked out of a house and the neighbor comes out and Austin police should air they are, they were helping them, you know and it's.
877
02:17:36.120 --> 02:17:46.980
Robert M. Fritsche: it's you know again a policy, yes, I agree, but as a lot of misconception with that and other than that it's a lot to absorb here i'm going to yield my time to my other colleagues.
878
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Rika Levin: And i'm looking around manny right, yes, thank you.
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Manuel R. Quezada: Thank you mayor um first of all I want to start off by saying thank you for everybody, then actually he's been working for several months on this.
880
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Manuel R. Quezada: I really appreciate, and I know how much time does take something like this takes to get accomplished so I, I want to thank you for the free time that you have put and there's and put them together so one thing.
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Manuel R. Quezada: We do have the presentation that was sent to us, but I was going to ask if the presentation that I will share with us today on the screen is possible to have it, linked as well as part of the previous presentation, I think.
882
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Manuel R. Quezada: At least to me will be helpful because they're like bullet points of what the whole presentation was done so, if we can share that with the public, I think, will be helpful on that and I do have some.
883
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Manuel R. Quezada: general questions, I guess, but um I don't know we don't need to have answers right now and and definitely seems that we have public meetings.
884
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Manuel R. Quezada: um you know, I would like to see what the rest of the participation of the Community feels about all these issues within intact within a whole itself, but one of the things that comes to mind.
885
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Manuel R. Quezada: For now, is obviously a budget portion of this arm if all these changes, was going to happen, I saw some of the numbers in here, but the thing and the overall, I think we need to understand what is the look like on a budget number.
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Manuel R. Quezada: The other thing that I think store was leading me into you know if we start changing some things, what does that look like for us sure um because I know right now the village of us any when they hire police officer, we do have a local list.
887
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Manuel R. Quezada: So in I heard the concerns of diversity arm so to me is is So what are we, what are we, what are we looking at sure, and I think there's a little bit more complex.
888
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Manuel R. Quezada: That I don't want to have in order to we have the time to have just because just on that topic, I think we can go for another hour ELISE alone, so I think that complexity is essential for us to understand what is the look like what does that mean um, how do we want to do that.
889
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Manuel R. Quezada: You know, so I think this there's a couple more items in there that but again I want to hear the feedback from the rest of the Community, when we open this to a public engagement and then we can, I think, as a as a whole as ability bore we can make.
890
02:20:32.370 --> 02:20:41.460
Manuel R. Quezada: A sound decision that point on, so i'm going to I do appreciate everything that you guys have done is very helpful information, so thank you for that.
891
02:20:44.490 --> 02:20:45.810 Rika Levin: Thanks um.
892
02:20:47.190 --> 02:20:53.070
Rika Levin: i'm not going to try i'm not going to repeat what's been said, first of all, except for the fact that we're very appreciative committees.
893
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Rika Levin: Most of our committees are appointed and there was a lot of effort made to make sure that individuals that were pointed on represented is wider scope on.
894
02:21:07.380 --> 02:21:15.450
Rika Levin: as possible, whenever getting a diverse Community like ours, you know the mathematics of that is if we have 200 people we still win represent.
895
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Rika Levin: every segment of the Community, and even if we did somebody will come and say, but you did it to represent me.
896
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Rika Levin: And it's really tough, because the job of the committee was not only the speaker's themselves with their own history and their values.
897
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Rika Levin: We had people who've lived to a very few years to people who were born here, you know and.
898
02:21:33.990 --> 02:21:44.040
Rika Levin: Just a large gamut which I think is going to be in the main report, but I think that, overall, as i've spoken to some Members there's a feeling that.
899
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Rika Levin: You know the old saying that perfect is the opposite of good you know getting things good is really the goal here, and I think.
900
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Rika Levin: I have to say I appreciate how much work went into this in the thoughtfulness the idea of including the high school the kids I got hurt any municipality do that kudos I don't know exactly who thought of it but kudos to whoever did super important super creative.
901
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Rika Levin: So there's just some a lot of creativity and creative creative thinking that went on, I will say that one of my expectation Richard is comments that say use words like a lot.
902
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Rika Levin: We know many municipalities do this, etc, etc, for me it may just be my analytics and maybe because i've done market research for two decades.
903
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Rika Levin: Words like we in a lot when usually would push means me and I can't really give you the number, so I really am.
904
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Rika Levin: going to be looking for, when you say many municipalities do this as Ian said i'd like to have what municipalities do whatever this is when you say that i'm sure you have it.
905
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Rika Levin: it's fine there are 500 of them in which just in New York state alone, and then there are hundreds across the country, and you were talking about the country.
906
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Rika Levin: um, this is a project about the police in the village of ossining, and so I will be looking for commentary, not on the perception.
907
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Rika Levin: And perspective of the people in the working committee, plus the 800 plus the did the survey, plus the 200 that.
908
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Rika Levin: person's perception, whether they grew up in brooklyn and our perception of police and then lived here or grew up here and came back here.
909
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Rika Levin: Is their reality that is not for me to question so that I will not be questioning, but I will be looking for that what is focused on our ability and the lane that we travel in.
910
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Rika Levin: And that I think starts going into what do you do with county What do you do with states what's in the pva what is it you know.
911
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Rika Levin: We have to do that, I mean it's expected the people that elect us who aren't on the committee and didn't necessarily expect that.
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Rika Levin: But i'm going to be looking for personally, and I know you have it, and i'm looking at you, Richard you can't tell because of this zoom and I know the committee thought a lot about this so um.
913
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Rika Levin: I want the public to also understand that, as they come up with ideas, there may be something out there.
914
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Rika Levin: I can think of a couple based on phone calls that i've already received that wasn't even addressed that I think will be addressed in the public meetings it'll be interesting how we may add it in or not.
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Rika Levin: And at some point and not doing it tonight i'm going to ask the Committee simple things like what was your experience in this committee i'd like to hear about that, just as as members and constituents here so.
916
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Rika Levin: i'm very interested in in the way this all worked for all of the Members and i'm i'm going to be very interested in some of the new things that may be presented and how we can bring this together, because it's a complicated but i'm absolutely go to stay in my lane.
917
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Rika Levin: it's the village of ossining and the police at large, while important, I think the way the governor did it is not at the state level I don't even know if the State police is under review the way municipalities are I don't even know if the state is actually looking at the State police.
918
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Rika Levin: And having this conversation there.
919
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Rika Levin: So they should do their own before they have every municipality do it, but I think the local law does fall in here and we're going to look so that.
920
02:25:22.080 --> 02:25:30.690
Rika Levin: The arguments people might have is, why do you keep saying that our police guys and our COPs because many of them are from our Community they're our neighbors.
921
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Rika Levin: um, why do you say that they're this or that and the answer is going to have to be look the lane that we're traveling in it and that's going to be really important, I think, to stay focused the perceptions and all that people's perceptions are their rights, that is exactly why we have.
922
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Rika Levin: committees it's exactly why we tried, as best we could, and when the mayor did the appointments to include people who represent themselves.
923
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Rika Levin: Their neighbors organizations that they may be a part of their professional experience that they bring to the table and everything about them.
924
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Rika Levin: i'm into this folder so i'm looking forward to the public, parts of this um I also want to know what those hotlines were at the end that last who who answers that hotline.
925
02:26:18.930 --> 02:26:20.640
Richard Brady: Oh, it goes to an answering this.
926
02:26:20.970 --> 02:26:21.420 Rika Levin: i'm sorry.
927
02:26:21.780 --> 02:26:23.100
Richard Brady: It goes to an answering machine.
928
02:26:23.310 --> 02:26:23.940 Rika Levin: yeah okay.
929
02:26:24.000 --> 02:26:26.760
Rika Levin: Everybody who's collecting that that empower.
930
02:26:27.750 --> 02:26:30.150
Richard Brady: Our project team has reviewed, I mean and I mostly.
931
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Rika Levin: Okay Okay, so I want people to feel free that yes, and and they can always do blt had village of awesome name.org or any of the folks in the village and it all comes to you guys and I do appreciate, by the way the website that was updated because keeping up with you guys ain't easy.
932
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Rika Levin: guys did so much work.
933
02:26:53.520 --> 02:26:59.190
Rika Levin: That, I think that the staff to also keep up with updating, but I think, as we gone to the public, part of.
934
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Rika Levin: It will be very important, and this was brought up at the subcommittee and I do want to bring the process up that every revision that's done that people don't react to an old revision and i'm counting on you guys to sort of keep that in the right place, thank you all.
935
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Rika Levin: For everything and for staying up this late to listen to all of this, I know i'll be speaking to some of you on the next few weeks as well, so.
936
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Rika Levin: Does anybody have a question for us right now it's not a dialogue usually the words question, I think the only thing we have to do village manager and Stewart is say that we're opening a public meeting right.
937
02:27:43.590 --> 02:27:44.940
Rika Levin: Actually, public hearing.
938
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Stuart E. Kahan: Not a formal public hearing so we're just noticing that there is a special meeting on the Sixth the 20th and the 27th.
939
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Stuart E. Kahan: that's probably will be, it will be noticed.
940
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Stuart E. Kahan: And it is in fact being the advertisement has already been placed with the gazette.
941
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Rika Levin: Okay, so that's what we're doing tonight we're hearing the presentation and then we're noticing the next public meetings.
942
02:28:08.550 --> 02:28:11.670
Rika Levin: Correct okay that's all that were needed to do okay.
943
02:28:13.290 --> 02:28:14.490
Rika Levin: Thank you everyone.
944
02:28:17.040 --> 02:28:19.710
Rika Levin: I didn't I don't see who's speaking i'm So there you are.
945
02:28:20.100 --> 02:28:20.310 hi.
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Mayte Garcia: For them, the meetings on the six the 20th and the 27th are public meetings but store did you say that the the public and not go on like they can't speak how i'm speaking, right now, are they.
947
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Stuart E. Kahan: Had at the zoom meetings my tape it they're actually board special meetings they're not and that steering committee meetings.
948
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Stuart E. Kahan: These are board these are these are not working committee meetings, these are Board of trustee meetings so they will be public meetings where the Board will conduct a meeting and the people folks will be able to say whatever they have to say.
949
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Rika Levin: So, so people will be brought on to speak, are you asking.
950
02:28:55.260 --> 02:28:57.660
Rika Levin: Whether people can speak and have.
951
02:28:58.500 --> 02:28:59.520
Rika Levin: that's the purpose.
952
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Mayte Garcia: Okay, I just yeah, I just wanted to know, because I think you know many points and very valuable to hear from Community Members on how they feel in certain topics, especially when it comes to ice and their perspectives on that so yeah, I just wanted to know that.
953
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Rika Levin: That actually is the goal of those meetings, I think, without putting words in stuart's mouth I think what stewards saying it's not that Richard will be conducting these meetings are the working committee, you will be there.
954
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Rika Levin: Officially it's so it's it's for the board to hear the public that is actually the entire purpose.
955
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Jennifer Cabrera: um I want to just ask trustee white mentioned a concern that she had that some of the civilian oversight might be overlapping.
956
02:29:48.540 --> 02:30:00.630
Jennifer Cabrera: So can I clarify the distinction between that governance board that we talked about, and the CPC rb and I think the third one that you were thinking of is probably the Community liaisons.
957
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Dana White: yeah please no that'd be great.
958
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Jennifer Cabrera: yeah i'm so i'm i'm Chair of the CP corp as well um, so we are our role in the village with stay the same, we review complaints when people make a formal complaint against the police.
959
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Jennifer Cabrera: department or a specific officer we review those and we we come up with a finding and then you know if if, for some reason there's a finding that.
960
02:30:31.920 --> 02:30:46.140
Jennifer Cabrera: um that there was an issue that is substantiated, then that goes to the village Board of Trustees and then you all make a decision about you know whether to.
961
02:30:47.430 --> 02:30:53.430
Jennifer Cabrera: To agree with that record, you know that i'm finding or not, and how to take action.
962
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Jennifer Cabrera: So the idea of the of the governance committee.
963
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Jennifer Cabrera: would be to take some of that oversight that the village Board of Trustees does because you all are so busy I mean we saw all the different.
964
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Jennifer Cabrera: You know presentations that we had today you all, are doing a lot for the village and it's a part time you know, a part time job that you're doing alongside.
965
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Jennifer Cabrera: Your full time jobs.
966
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Jennifer Cabrera: So the idea was that that would be a committee that either is appointed by the Board of Trustees sort of like all the other committees that we have.
967
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Jennifer Cabrera: So the CDC IRB the zoning board all of those um and it's specifically doing oversight over the police department and that's why we would want trustees to be a part of it.
968
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Jennifer Cabrera: or because it's such an important thing that it might be something where.
969
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Jennifer Cabrera: Those are elected positions and we realized that that that's a very big change and would require quite a lot of legal maneuvering if we wanted to go that route.
970
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Jennifer Cabrera: But it's really those two different options for the same purpose, which is to to have a little bit to have a group that is more focused on on the actual governance and and.
971
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Jennifer Cabrera: Not the day to day management of the police force because that's really still the Chiefs position.
972
02:32:27.390 --> 02:32:38.970
Jennifer Cabrera: But, but more of the top line stuff that it goes beyond just reviewing complaints, the liaisons would be sort of like the board that used to exist.
973
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Jennifer Cabrera: I forgot what it's called I think it was a Community engagement board that worked with the police, but this would be somewhat different, in that it is, it is a way.
974
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Jennifer Cabrera: So that the police department and the Community have point people so when the Community has concerns they can go to the police department when the police have concerns that they need to bring to the Community.
975
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Jennifer Cabrera: They can bring that to those people so that there's just always an open dialogue which a lot of people felt like didn't quite exist, so that that's what those those three.
976
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Jennifer Cabrera: bodies would be.
977
02:33:20.250 --> 02:33:20.880 A lot Thank you.
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Rika Levin: Okay, I think, thank you all.