Uptown Security Report
We support our troops and police. Cincinnati Change supports the mission statement of the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD). We also want to work in partnership with the citizens of the community to provide a safe environment where the quality of life may be improved through the delivery of fair and impartial police services.Cincinnati Change said in our Top Stories of 2005, on the election of Mark Mallory as Mayor, "New leadership brings with it a chance to improve the city. He can use the assets of the city which are more than a billion dollars to make fundamental changes in the lives of the residents of the city. He can coordinate the leadership in the region to create a Cincinnati lifestyle that benefits everyone in the region. At Cincinnati Change we know they have the tools to deal with the problems of the city and look forward to this council to have the will to use them to benefit the residents of the city."
We hope to work with interested parties who believe that we can have Peace in the Hood along with Jobs in the Hood.
In 2002, the Cincinnati Police Department entered into a collaborative agreement with other parties in Cincinnati. The collaborative agreement binds the signature's ( the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD), the Fraternal Order of Police, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)referred to as "the parties") to a series of reforms and initiatives intended to reduce social strife in the city.
The agreement requires the CPD to implement a variety of changes, most notably the adoption of Community Problem-Oriented Policing (CPOP) as a strategy for addressing crime problems and engaging the community.
Other provisions of the agreement require the CPD to establish a civilian complaint review process. The collaborative agreement incorporates a previous agreement between the CPD and the U.S. Department of Justice on use-of force issues.The agreement has five primary goals:
- Ensure that police officers and community members…become proactive partners in community problem solving.
- Build relationships of respect, cooperation, and trust within and between police and communities.
- Improve education, oversight, monitoring, hiring practices, and accountability of the CPD.
- Ensure fair, equitable, and courteous treatment for all.
- Create methods to establish the public’s understanding of police policies and procedures and recognition of exceptional service in an effort to foster support for the police (U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, Western Division, undated, pp. 3–4).
The agreement also specifies the need to evaluate achievement of these goals. We look forward in reviewing this process with the Mayor and City Council so as to give direction to the city manager who has stated on 25 Feb. 2006 "[Colonel Thomas H.]Streicher works for me."
Cincinnati Change will be reporting on the result of the decree and efforts by third parties in relationship to that degree on our website Nati Action Agency. To do that we must first establish a baseline that all parties agree to. We have chosen to by the create a online bullitien board system whereas all facts are laid out for comment that become the basis for PEACE IN THE HOOD/JOBS IN THE HOOD.
From this day Cincinnati Change will partner with parties to evaluate whether the above mentioned agreement to see if the goals are being achieved.We will use data from many sources to establish our base, including data from the RAND Corporation who is in the middle of evaluation over a five-year period, from June 2004 to the latter part of 2008 on the agreement.
Starting on June 19th 2006 we will create the first annual report on the collaborative evaluation. This study will be of interest to Cincinnati residents and public officials who want to invest in the residents not in jails ( Not that we are against building a new $225M jail. As a mater of fact we will build it for cost plus 9% flat. Furthermore we will build a social service infrastructure. This will be done with established program providers and faith based providers like Churches Can Change Cincinnati NOW and the 100 Male Ministries that will be targeted to graduate ex felons and their families from a life of poverty. We will start in 2006 with 100 clients.
We believe our report may also prove useful to residents and officials in other jurisdictions where similar reform efforts are underway to learn from us. We look forward to creating a public private partnership that puts over 100 new private police officers on the street with Citizens on Patrol and invests in the lives of over 2,000 young men and women who are at risk.
We want to thank the City of Cincinnati who funded the project on behalf of the parties to the collaborative agreement. Recent RAND works that may be of interest to readers of this blog include the following:
- Training the 21st Century Police Officer: Redefining Police Professionalism for the Los Angeles Police Department (Glenn et al., 2003)
- Assessing Racial Profiling More Credibly: A Case Study of Oakland, California (Ridgeway and Riley, 2004).
The RAND Safety and Justice Program research was conducted under the auspices of the Safety and Justice Program within RAND's Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment Division.
Cincinnati Change is creating a Cincinnati Company called Uptown Security. The mission of the company is to
- provide homeland safety and security infrastructure management, design and construction from our headquarters in Cincinnati;
- provide management from our headquarters at 2439 Auburn Avenue in Cincinnati global security and safety tools, services and support with training conducted from a 22 acre site in Cleveland and products supplied from our proposed 200 acre inter-modal logistics center in Texas, and;
- create an environment is to improve the development, operation, use, and protection of society's essential man-made and natural assets and to enhance the related social assets of safety and security of individuals.
This company will provide secure transit systems starting with a demonstration development in greater Cincinnati - including funding the creation of a new secure bridge, if our team builds it. This will be accomplished using a financial instrument created for this purpose which is to be a new type of regional community redevelopment wrap around lead by a core city - in this case Cincinnati. By 2009 we expect to have 100 cities worldwide using this program to reduce smog, deaths and provide for the residents of the center city community and regional economic development.
This company will provide security for clients in their workplaces and community. This company will create a subsidiary called 1st responders team. It is to be a for profit company whose mission is to care for clients and their families in case of a emergency. We look to make our first client the residents of the city of Cincinnati.
By 2007 this company will have the trained staff to provide consultation with communities under contract. This will be done with over 200 public and private sector partners through the development of a Safety and Justice Program that addresses occupational safety, transportation safety, food safety, and public safety including violence, policing, corrections, substance abuse, and public integrity. We will develop this company as a private public partnership in cooperation with all parties who are signatures to the Collaboration.
