Board of Police Commissioners

Detroit Board of Police Commissioners

Criminal Justice

Thursday, July 25, 2024
3:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m. EDT

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1301 Third Street South Detroit, MI 48226 (Directions)

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Reporting

Edited and summarized by the Detroit - MI Documenters Team

Note-taking by Laila Hamdan

The board failed to reach a quorum, further stalling the process of interviewing candidates for the board secretary position. Multiple residents complained of unjust vehicle ticketing.

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Live reporting by Meghan Rutigliano

The BOPC failed to reach a quorum, further stalling the process of interviewing candidates for the open board secretary position.

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01:55 PM Jul 25, 2024 CDT

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The public is invited to join in person, by Zoom, or via phone. The meeting will be held in person at Detroit Public Safety Headquarters - Skylar Herbert Room, 1301 Third St, Detroit, MI, 48226. For info on how to join remotely, visit this link

detroitmi.gov/sites/detroitm…

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Another option for the public: BOPC Meeting can be viewed at scroll down to select City TV Channel 21.

detroitmi.gov

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To view the full agenda, visit:

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There will be time allotted for public comment. Please use the following link to sign up for public comments

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⭐️They will continue interviews for BOPC Secretary.
Last week, three candidates were interviewed: John Franks, Kai Paige, and Felecia Tyson.
This week, two new candidates are up for interviews: Lydia Garnier Barlow Jamison and Preston Zacharias.

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We can expect that the BOPC will go into closed session during the meeting today to discuss the 5 candidates publicly interviewed for the role.

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And with that, "see you" in a few.

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They're working on getting this Zoom going. :)

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I'm frustrated. I can't see or hear anything. Just an icon. I had heard the BOPC team members. Now I'm hearing a mic test. This is bad.

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Houston, we are go for launch!

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No quorum. They are opening for public comment.

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A public commenter is being escorted out. This is at a very high level of intensity. She exceeded her comment time and is screaming.

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Oof. Next commenter. Minister Eric Blount calling for moment of silence for Sonya Massey.
Calling out that it is legal for a police officer to lie to residents. It's crazy to deal with this current system.

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--Blount calling out a Metro Times article that highlighted poor behaviors by law enforcement officers.
This is the article:

metrotimes.com/news/a-detroit…

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Public comments continue: Male Vietnam vet lives behind Palmer Park. Says they leave the park and hang out on 2nd and Covington. They are playing music until the morning comes. Says it is wrong. He's reached out to Precinct 12. Wants help.

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They're still waiting on the quorum. Burton is outside and chatting with the woman who was having a screaming episode. Then, he and Pressley can return and there will be a quorum.

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Public comments. Male speaker. Has received three orange tow-away stickers. He has 60-day temporary plates.

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Brief dialogue ensued about helping male speaker out.

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Female commenter: July 21st--was reported that Mayor Duggan's officials don't live in the city. She says she's ashamed of Detroit, wants BOPC to get act together around this open secretary role.

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Male speaker is yielding his time to previous female speaker. OMG she just said "side piece". Just sayin'. As in "if you had a side piece and she got a ticket, it would be taken care of." Thank you, female commenter, for that brief comedic moment. ;)

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Female speaker. $250 parking tickets being given by neighborhood police officers. There's more to pay attention to. We need trauma-informed care. Calling out had behavior of cops on her block.

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Bam! There's a quorum. (x=present)
Intro:
Woods x
Smith x
Banks x
Bell (excused absence)
Burton x (says he needs to step out....this is kinda ridiculous IMO. He's leaving the meeting to go into the hallway and thereby rendering them unable to convene the meeting).

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Chairperson Woods is apologizing to the meeting attendees about Burton's behavior.
Announcements
The next meeting will be held Thursday, August 1, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m. Detroit Public Safety Headquarters 1301 Third St., Detroit MI 48226

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Another announcement.
Next Community Meeting:
Thursday, August 8, 2024 @ 6:30 p.m. 5th Precinct @ WCCCD Eastern Campus 5901 Conner St., Detroit, MI 48213

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They're going to recess for 5 minutes rather than calling off the meeting on account of Burton being MIA in the hallway. They will try to get Bernard on the phone. I thought I did hear her testing the Zoom call earlier.

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TBH today I feel badly for the BOPC members who just want to get their job done.

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break over, another male public commenter also yielding his minutes to same female commenter.
They are now moving to adjourn the meeting.

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What a ridiculous moment this is. Woods apologizing to the candidates, to the public. They want to be able to do the peoples' business. OCI is fully staffed and doing the work of the city of Detroit. Have new investigators on staff now.

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Pressley-motion to adjourn.
Hernandez-seconded with comment that this is unacceptable.

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Meeting is adjourned at 3:51pm.

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This concludes my coverage of the BPOC meeting. For more information on future meetings and the work of the board, visit their website:

detroitmi.gov/government/boa…

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Detroit Board of Police Commissioners

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The Board of Police Commissioners has supervisory control and oversight of the Police Department, including plenary authority over citizen complaints and the power to appoint fact finders, subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, take testimony, and require the production of evidence. The Board also appoints a civilian as Director of Police Personnel and approves all promotions made by the Chief. The 11 member board is comprised of 7 elected members from each city council district and 4 members appointed by the Mayor. https://detroitmi.gov/government/boards/board-police-commissioners