Todays meeting is taking place at the Calmeca Academy cafeteria so there’s plenty of seating and the facilities are well lit, clean and accessible

Here’s the agenda for today including who’s on the 9th district council chicago.gov/city/en/depts/…

About 20 people have arrived so far. Council member Carlos says they’ll wait five more minutes to start

These handouts are provided at the door

Translation is being provided for attendees who need it

Chair Carlos Sanchez calls meeting to order at 6:39. All council members are present

Lauren Green with the office of emergency management and communications is the first speaker. chicago.gov/city/en/depts/…

She explains how 911 calls are process. Police officers are first to respond and then they reach out to the dispatchers The first information they need is where, what and then who. They also need to know when the emergency happened and what weapons were involved

Lauren explains there are three types of priority calls: first priority events are described as events that pose an eminent thread to life. Priority two, time response can effect outcome of incident. Third priority don’t pose threads to life.

President of the FOP John Catanzara asks from the audience what Lauren’s opinion is on the importance of Shot Spotter.

Lauren says that people don’t often call 911 when they they hear gunshots so she thinks it’s important

Another audience member asks about the police cameras in his neighborhood, Lauren explains those are just police cameras.

She clicked that shot spotter only picks up on sound and are in some neighborhoods while the pod cameras are different and they are in all neighborhoods

Another audience member asks Lauren about false shot spotter alerts which Lauren says has happened and explains that they still send the police to check it out

She also talked about the the smart 911 program is a subscription service that the city of Chicago has that allows residents to create a profile which dispatchers will have access to only when you call. She says the data is encrypted

Community Engagement Commissioner Erin Vogel gives a debrief of what she’s done since last meeting

She mentions she attended the special meeting on shot spotter. She also attended a meeting on the movement to end pretextual traffic stops. She said she attending a meeting with Souther poverty law center to talk about research on white suprcy groups within the police department.

Denise Mcbroom, gives her debrief she says that the nominating committee is currently in the process of interview members for the CCPSA. She explains the specific qualifications for the members. Commissioner terms are 2-4 years

Next is public comment with 2 minutes per speaker. The first public speaker is FOP President, John Catazara. He begins by addressing Erin’s previous debrief. He says that internal affairs has verified that white supremacist groups aren’t present in police department.

He also says that Erin’s comments at city council regarding the police arbitration vote went against her ode as commissioner. Here’s more on that vote: cbsnews.com/chicago/news/c…

Next speaker is Annie Jacobs she addresses pretextual stops which she says less than 1% result in the confiscation of any illegal weapons. She says that’s why it needs to be reduced and that it would benefit police officers.

Mimi is the next speaker from the 11 ward, she says her ward is creating a participatory budgeting committee to decide how money is allocated in the ward. The committee is looking for representation from other neighborhoods

Next speaker is Jim Jakstavich, the financial secretary of the FOP and a detective. He also addresses traffic stops, he says traffic stops are used to stop gang bangers. He also address Erin’s public comment at city hall. He shouts out Comm’r McBroom for her work in the community

A member in the audience says it was helpful to know about the white supremacist presence within CPD saying he didn’t know that before.

Im response to comments made by the FOP members who spoke Erin clarifies that she was give a green light on her comments at by 9 district commander

Next speaker is Karen, she mentions some events happening to commemorate officer Vazquez nbcchicago.com/news/local/who…

Meeting adjourned at 7:25. This concludes the 9th Police District Council meeting. The next meeting is scheduled for March 27, location TBD. For more meeting coverage, check out . documenters.org