Community Impact Ad Hoc Committee

Create homeless shelters at places of worship who have large campuses across the city, open as needed. Not one huge shelter.

Mental Health Professional on Call

I’d like to see police referring out to enlist support with a mental health professional when responding to any case where mental health may be in question. I think that working alongside someone more deeply trained in deescalation and conflict management might help police focus more on other types of calls while providing higher quality of care to community members who need therapy more than a night in jail.

Provide data used to determine a committee is necessary to examine need for defunding or reforming Police in Fort Collins or Larimer County.

What constitutes a "flood of calls" to defund Police and who is calling? The specifics, along with factual data pertaining to officer-involved shootings or dereliction of duty, etc., HERE IN FT. COLLINS AND LARIMER COUNTY (not Minneapolis or anywhere else) need to be provided to justify whether or not a committee is necessary concerning the performance of our Police and Sheriff Departments, who actually serve and protect our community. Maybe start with the Division of Criminal Justice (S.B. 15-217). Otherwise, perhaps focus on areas that actually need attention to better serve all residents.

Our Police are NOT bad!

Stop the non-sense in our city. We have very good police officers. If anything, Supervisors can use existing policy and procedure to correct bad behavior. This is all just over reaction to some communities where bad people constantly push police against the wall with bad behavior. I have been there and have witnessed it. Of course, no body deserves to be shot to death but we are not getting the truth from fake news!

More traffic enforcement

Over the past year in particular drivers seem to care less and less about following the rules. It's time to remind people what a stop sign is and what a speed limit sign is.

Help!!!! We need our traffic cops!! Stop us for speeding, failure to use turn signals and failure to yield right-of-ways. Too complacent now

Better traffic enforcement, it’s scary out here!!!

Share your cell phone number

What would you do if a struggling neighbor waved you over and told you that she couldn’t get in touch with her parole officer. Failure to check in could lead to an arrest warrant for parole violation. Plus, she might be running out of minutes on her prepaid cellphone. You can stand on the side of the road, and let the sworn enemy in your war on crime use your cell phone to check in and video-chat with the officer. Many times, you deal with neighbors who are teetering on the edge of some collapse; as cops, you can either tip them over or pull them back. Your job is to pull them back at every opportunity.

Slow Down

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1745-9133.12337 Research Summary By drawing from psychology and economics, we present an experimental evaluation of a procedural justice training program designed to “slow down” police officers’ thought processes during citizen encounters. We find that officers who were randomly assigned to participate in training were as engaged in the community as similarly situated officers, but they were less likely to resolve incidents with an arrest or to be involved in incidents where force was used. These changes were most evident among officers who worked in areas with a modest level of risk.