Remarks by Chuck Grigsby
67 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
“You said this, the difference between the mutual and automatic. OK. Can you break that down for me? Yes.”
“I'm almost embarrassed to say this, but I just, the training that you're doing, especially with the regional training, I just want to throw in your ear, because I know you've got a lot of different things going on, but to have a community aspect to that, we talked about that, I believe, several months ago, and just kind of really giving Not necessarily just the community members, but also people like myself who don't normally get a chance to really see the type of training that you're doing or what it takes, even if it's just an observatory type situation, I think is something that would be…”
“But just jumping back to the text signal.”
“I just have a few questions about what you mentioned here in your presentation here with the tech signal holster, I think it was called. Is that also for non-lethal? Is that for the TASER II and for both? Okay, I missed that.”
“Oh, it's not just the individual officers?”
“Gotcha. And I apologize. So... I remember for like the camera thing, is there like a delay before the actual camera comes on?”
“Thank you. I got to say, the 24 hours from MCOS and us hitting 98 hours is pretty impressive for the training standard. I don't know what it is nationally, but that just seems like a huge investment in to what you're doing and how you're going about that. And I think that's huge. So I wanted to acknowledge that. I do have some technical questions. You can refer me back to maybe some of the, which you had in your presentation if you want, but I do have a couple of different questions here, if I may. So we haven't had a chance to kind of really talk in a while because of the break and whatnot,…”
“Thank you. So as you consider those priorities, what are the three most significant obstacles to that then? I mean, are there limitations? And what support does the department need to be able to accomplish them?”
“I do have a couple more, if that's OK. Excuse me. So I've been contacted by a few community members in relation to the flock cameras. And what's going on with that? I know there was some local reporting done with that. And if I understand my numbers correctly from wrong, there was an investment of, a two-year investment of $60,000 for the flock mobile cameras. We're getting billed for that, about $30,000 a year. During the 30-day period, recently examined that East Lansing Police Department conducted fewer than 200 searches, while agencies conducted tens of thousands of searches involving…”
“No, just share it, because you know that I inquired about this, and so I think it's important to have community conversation about what is going on. And so if you want to divulge what you want to share that you feel is beneficial, that'd be helpful.”
“Yeah, I appreciate the thorough answer and just really trying to explain this in this format. So I appreciate that.”
“So we had a citizen, not a commissioner, speak tonight about the monthly reports and just really the access to that. She made a suggestion about maybe council members benefiting from seeing those reports. I'm just wondering if there's any issues for us to be able to have access to those monthly reports when they're sent out in regards to whatever policies that are in place or isn't. I know they're unredacted, too. So I know there may be another issue there because that's part of the issue.”
“OK. That's what I was curious about. And then the other thing is there was a question, and I wanted to ask about the injury field part there. Did you guys hear that part of her presentation where she's asking about those minor reports and there being some discrepancy about the injury field part there? Do you guys know what I'm talking about? Okay. Could you take note of that and just as you are doing your evaluation that whatever information that is pertaining to the injury field, just making sure that that's consistent. But that's all I really had overall.”
“Thank you. I didn't think I was going to say anything more, but I'm going to. So I forgot to mention, and I think this is really, really important, not the fact that you've been phenomenal in being able to get talent in here and recruit. I think that's something that you had talked about. maybe in our third public safety presentation that you were doing that and you have been doing that. I want to commend your efforts and the team of making that a priority. But within that, the diversity aspect, There was a speaker here that spoke who was a Michigan State professor who wrote a book about…”
“I just want to thank the fire department and you guys for the conversation and the preparation that it takes to come in here and talk with us we didn't have that before and I thought that this was a great opportunity to kind of do these things so I really appreciate the fact that you guys come prepared and ready to try to give us and the community a better understanding about what the priorities should be and what we could do I mean we're not a perfect product And we're working for that. And I talked to Chief Brown early when I first got on that striving for excellence is the goal. And I…”
“I don't mind that. I think it's important to have that consistency, but that's not a hill that I'm I think if there's any special circumstance that happens in our community that we have the opportunity to be able to like, Hey, look, I don't know. We had this plan in December, but let's come in here and talk on November. Uh, outside of that, I'm pretty good with it.”
“A lot of my technical questions were addressed. I just, I got to be honest with you as you were doing the presentation, you were talking about the scale of this thing. I was just, my head was spinning a little bit. And I just really appreciate the effort and expertise that has gotten us to this point here where we can actually start making the steps forward. and You know when I ran for office and wanted to do something for the city and really have an impact I think this is one of those major things that I think is a lasting impact for long before after Hopefully still here but in the position…”