| A | B | C | D | E | |
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1 | How many patrol officers do we need in Urbana?!? | ||||
2 | Answer based on the yellow cells below: | 44 | |||
3 | Answer according to BerryDunn: | 44 | |||
4 | How many patrol officers we already have: | 31 | |||
5 | In the budget proposal: | + 11 | |||
6 | Consider the four factors below, which inform this calculation. Fill out the yellow spaces based on what you think Urbana needs. Watch as the answer above is updated based on your perspectives. Note: It is very difficult to reduce the number of officers in a city due to police union rules and other factors. | ||||
7 | 1) | How patrol officers distribute their time during a shift: | |||
8 | BerryDunn suggests that police should spend only 30% of their time responding to calls for service (CFS). The remaining 70% is split between doing paperwork (30% of time), and "self-directed patrol" (40% of time). In the expanded self-directed time, police will supposedly build relationships with the community, which will mean that we are doing "Community-Oriented Policing." The hope is that this will make policing less racially biased and more just, but there is no evidence that this distribution of time helps reduce crime or make policing more just. BerryDunn says that time spent on paperwork tends to mirror time spent on CFS. Currently, UPD spends just under 40% of their time on CFS and 26% of time on paperwork. What distribution of time seems reasonable to you? | ||||
9 | BerryDunn's suggested distribution | What do you think it should be? | |||
10 | CFS | 30 | 30 | ||
11 | Paperwork | 30 | 30 | ||
12 | Self-directed patrol | 40 | 40 | ||
13 | 2) | Vacations, leave, etc.: | |||
14 | Councilmembers have expressed concern that we are just one vacation away from needing to use a ton more police overtime. How many additional officers do we need to assuage their concerns? Currently, police are paid for 2080 hours of work each year, but they are not available for 360.71 of those hours (e.g., they are on vacation, injured or sick, in training, etc.). How many extra weeks of vacation/training/etc. do you think we should add to (or subtract from) the BerryDunn calculation? | ||||
15 | BerryDunn's calculation | What do you think we should factor in? | |||
16 | Extra weeks - vacation/sick time | 0 | 0 | ||
17 | Extra hours - training | 0 | 0 | ||
18 | Extra hours - other | 0 | 0 | ||
19 | 3) | How much time should officers spend at various types of CFS? | |||
20 | The BerryDunn report breaks down CFS into 3 types: Crime, Service, and Traffic. Currently, UPD's average response time for Crime and Service CFS is significantly higher than the average response time in other cities. The BerryDunn report also adds an extra 110160 minutes/year (1836 hours/year) of time to the "obligated workload" calculations, to account for times when officers were doing self-directed patrol (i.e., time that is still accounted for as 40% time) but happened to do work that they believe would have otherwise become a CFS (e.g., noticed a car crash, responded to it, we assume that the police would have otherwise been called). | ||||
21 | Urbana avg response time in 2022 (minutes/call) | Other cities' avg response time (minutes/call) | What do you think is a reasonable response time? (minutes/call) | ||
22 | Crime CFS | 71.22 | 56.47 | 71.22 | |
23 | Service CFS | 71.93 | 39.1 | 71.93 | |
24 | Traffic CFS | 24.68 | 48.41 | 24.68 | |
25 | Extra time (minutes/year) | 110160 | n/a | 110160 | |
26 | 4) | How many calls should be handled outside of the police department? | |||
27 | The math in the BerryDunn report to calculate how many patrol officers we need is based on 2022 CAD data. The table below shows the number of each type of CFS in 2022. Crime has gone down in Urbana since this data was finalized. Urbana constituents have asked for a non-police Alternative Response Model that would envision: - Having other people respond to these types of CFS (e.g., sending a trained mental health professional rather than an officer with a gun when someone is having a mental health crisis) - Preventing crime and other situations that result in CFS in the first place (e.g., by addressing issues of poverty) If we overspend on policing, we will not have money left to fund these other alternative response services. An entry level officer, with no higher education requirement, costs taxpayers ~$100,000 a year in salary and benefits alone. An entry level licensed Social Worker with 4-6 years of education costs ~$55,000. | ||||
28 | Note that: - Crime CFS includes - 891 "Noise/Music Complaint" - 41 "Panhandler" (which is not actually a crime) - 27 "Illegal Dumping" - 72 "Fireworks" [Total for Crime CFS above is 1031]] - Service CFS includes - 1124 "Check Welfare" - 786 "Meet Complainant" - 182 "Medical" - 223 "Suicidal Threats" - 457 "Accident Property Damage Report" [Total for Service CFS above is 2772]] (See Tables 2.20 and 2.31 in the BerryDunn report for further breakdown) | ||||
29 | Number of this type of CFS in Urbana in 2022 | How many of these do you think definitely do not need police response? (Note: You can enter a negative number if you think we should be ready for more calls than we received in the past) | Total calls that need police response (calculated based on your entries to the left) | ||
30 | Crime CFS | 5322 | 0 | 5322 | |
31 | Service CFS | 10508 | 0 | 10508 | |
32 | Traffic | 434 | 0 | 434 | |