This month’s guest speaker was SPD Chief Operating Officer Brian Maxie. He told us about the SPD staffing study delivered in March by Berkshire Advisors, Inc. It recommended an increase of 175 officers and 107 FTE of overtime to get to a goal of responding to Priority One 911 calls within 7 seconds 90% of the time. The report is here. The Mayor has committed to increasing SPD officers by 200 FTE by the end of 2019. 75 of them are targeted to be hired in 2016. The North Precinct is primary for adding patrol officers, followed by Southwest.
Crime-wise, burglaries and car prowls are way up from last year at this time. Whereas in 2015 there were 386 burglaries, this year there are 565. For car prowls it is 770 in 2015 and 1182 in 2016. Commercial burglaries are up, also: 147 in 2015 and 240 in 2016. Major Crimes Unit is working on these, clearing a lot of cases in the north end. North Precinct is also using crime analysis data to get maps of hot spots so patrols can be sent out to them if they have free time.
Read all the minutes here.
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