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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK
<br /> Scott Ruszkowski, Chief of Police for the City of South Bend with offices located at 701 West
<br /> Sample Street, stated, With me is Danny Cocanower and you've already met him. He is a man of
<br /> many talents.Not as much as Jen but pretty darn close. He then went on to introduce other Police
<br /> colleagues in attendance with him. He went on, I know the Council always asks this and I don't
<br /> always get a chance to tell it because a lot of people don't want to hear it. Jumping down our list
<br /> of goals and accomplishments, and there are a lot of acronyms, but calls of service as of June of
<br /> this year is 56,000. The 2017 total was 99,000 and then 2016 was 103,000. That is what we
<br /> responded to and what we documented responding to. That isn't necessarily counting the times
<br /> when officers stop and converse with citizens. Case Reports, as you can see (referencing a slide in
<br /> the presentation which is available in the City Clerk's Office) is 11,500. The total in year 2017
<br /> was 22,000 case reports and then 2016 had 23,000 case reports. Notably, as of June, we've had
<br /> 1,312 arrests.
<br /> Committeemember John Voorde asked, What is a Case Report?
<br /> Chief Ruszkowski replied, That means we filed an actual Police Report. That is a preliminary
<br /> report that launches an investigation of some type. Or, a direct shift to the prosecutor. Or, for
<br /> example,if someone was on probation and they caught them doing something they shouldn't,that
<br /> report would be forwarded to the DuComb Center so then the Parole/Probation Officer and/or a
<br /> judge would be able to see that. That is a formal report and the other one (1) you may be thinking
<br /> is an informal report. That is still documented but Case Reports are actual and formal Police
<br /> Reports. The Calls for Service is everything we responded to whether it is Case Reports, Formal,
<br /> Informal or otherwise.
<br /> He continued, We are on pace to have a lower amount of arrests than what we have had. To be
<br /> clear, and the question always comes up, that does not count warrant arrests. If they've already
<br /> been arrested, we don't double count the second arrests. Now, if we arrest somebody who had a
<br /> warrant but they have other things to be arrested for,that is included as another arrest. Out of those
<br /> numbers, the impressive parts, to me, start coming. So back in 2016, there were seventy-two (72)
<br /> times of uses of force.That means we only needed to use force seventy-two(72)times out of 2,500
<br /> arrests. In 2017 we used force fifty-seven (57) times out of 2,200. And, to date as of June 2018,
<br /> we've used force forty-one (4 1)times out of 1,300 arrests. That is punch, slap,kick,Taser,pepper
<br /> spray, whatever, that is how many times we used it. Again, continuing with the impressiveness,
<br /> complaints from use of force,to date, we've had two (2) out of forty-one (41) uses of force. In all
<br /> of 2017 we had only one (1) complaint out of fifty-seven (57) uses of force and then three (3)
<br /> complaints in 2016.
<br /> He went on,Public complaints are when anybody calls in about anything,we've had four(4). That
<br /> could be anything ranging from officer's driving behavior, attitude, or whatever. That is what
<br /> we've had to date. We had ten (10) in all of 2017 and twenty-nine (29) in all of 2016. Al stands
<br /> for Administrative Investigations. That is something that another officer,but usually a Sergeant or
<br /> above has initiated against another officer, and we've had eight(8) so far this year. We had sixteen
<br /> (16) total in 2017 and thirty (30) in 2016. For the record, on the South Bend Police website, you
<br /> can see all of this. You can dig and look and find out what they are, the status of the complaints,
<br /> where the uses of force occurred, the call volumes, crime reports and it is all mapped out. You
<br /> could do a comparison of where violent crimes are and how many uses of force have been in that
<br /> area. You can really dig into the data we provide. I can assure you, and this is no disrespect to any
<br /> other department within the City, but we are the most transparent. Everything we have is put out
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