want to reach out more we want to spend more time in the future in community policing we have a number of young officers out on the force or very interested in reaching out more because we can't as a police department they can't be every or sergeants investigations basically everything within the agency so i really really want to thank you guys for coming out to shows what a great city we have it people really really want to come out take a stand against crime i've been a victim of crime it sucks it really does everybody here probably raise your hand if you've been a victim of crime or so to whatever that crime maybe it happens it happens everywhere in fact i was just in a meeting on yesterday over maple and they had a riot rash of daytime burglaries spiked occupy daytime burglaries so that's not scary you know i don't know what else is but we're here to give you a lot of information tonight we're going to talk about some trends were here close to close to fifteen years and this is really one of our first big crime prevention meetings and i just this is great i definitely think in the future we need to have more on and really disseminate that information to you all so over the last couple months and all this first of all we've had we've had a couple different types of burglaries going on in burglaries aren't uncommon they happen every city has for some reason town we see him over the winter when people get on the floor or go away for the winter and we've got something for him to talk of off tonight to prevent some of that stop them from the programs that we do offer here with the police department but but really what's really important  of the stuff we're seeing as a reason like the mayor said i just had one today about two thirty in the afternoon right around thirteen thousand new intel one thousand four hundred block we had a mail that went inside a residence that was occupied there were no cars in the driveway at that time so this mail want to round two to the back of the house and i was like a screened in porch to go into a main and main entrance to the house they opened the door one single male opened the door walked in and then went to make the move to go into the main part of the house open the door of rocco the door and the son heard heard some commotion going on he came down from the up stairs so chased them away  basically in my home screen burglars that we've had up on the north of the town we do have some suspects we are actively working on i have assigned all that work our staffing levels are back up i was able to sign one of our officers to angles with it we do have some suspects over actively looking at it so i can't go to any more detail than that but what's going on in the north end of town appears to be overnight hours mainly happened in the last month or so with the weather was  this to go into a random house like that going in and grabbing valuables off owners they've taken a liquor cigar i'm just weird crimes of opportunity grabbing anything that they can get of value that they see from that window area we did have recently had a couple of them pretty bold actually walk around inside the home at night coming through that window we actually had won it believe m  game changing move really be game changers in burglaries because really a burglar is a sneaky individual crime of opportunity looking to take advantage of you when you're not prepared so one of the big things is unfortunately we get a lot of people why do we have to lock our doors do we have to lock our doors during the day time i would say yes times are changing i lock my doors when i'm at home during the day lock your doors recently in may what if this meeting i was at  yesterday they had they've been having daytime burley's same house the same person was hit twice walked into the house the first time elderly female was in the house ran away second time the husband was in the house and he was grabbed his firearm and actually caught the guy in the garage took him down by gunpoint so they did pitch down but there have been a lot of those so i i think we lock our doors at all times  that's a great thing that would have prevented that thing to me that happened windows windows are important thing specially with weston all of our home is to make sure you know we all like to leave our windows open for ventilation and stuff but it's so important that we keep those lower level windows secure again it's a crime opportunity people walk around in a dark side of a house you can't see him and you can be right up in the in the front lawn area with a squad car and you can see him from here to mr barber over just you can't you can't tell what's going on if there's no appropriate lighting so you really have to keep them window secure because they can reach up and crime open and do and even know what outside lighting is a big one and we've had a couple cold burglaries on the was a foreclosed home so somebody was eyeing this home and what they did is actually pulled a pop up in the garage door there was no lights around the home or anything like those really dark at night popped in in the garage door shut the garage door and proceeded to take everything inside the home light lights prevent crime it's been a proven fact that it does so the more lights we have the better i'm not saying we don't it doesn't need to be run away in an airport but if there's some ambien lighting around around the front area of the windows something like that it just shows somebody see even when you're not home it really deters crime and i don't think i have a night here but another one is a sign or arm sign that's a proven fact that there is no difference between have an alarm an alarm sign as far as the burglar knowing the difference and it really does i have an alarm sign on the i don't have an alarm hooked up to my residence but i got the alarm protected by brinks or whatever it is you can buy them at the mall of america for a couple bucks you know that does deter crime proven fact a national studies and another thing is valuable valuables are big thing and with a burglary sometimes when if we don't catch a burglar in the act which is which is actually really pretty difficult because they're very very sneaky little individuals if nobody's home and they steal from the house it's tough to catch a burglar so the way we catch them the way law enforcement catches them is after the fact they catch them they catch them and pawn shops they catch them pawn in your stuff on in your firearms on your jewelry actually pawn shops these days are very very sophisticated everybody that comes in there has to present a valid identification calm everybody is caught on camera there every every month there's cameras at the check o'connor turnitin connery turn in valuables that's the way we catch them work up into the national pond system with our police department so when we have stolen items if somebody gives us the serial number of  of a stolen item we can run it in our national database or in minnesota database and pull up if that's been pawned anywhere and simply we make a phone call to the pond store they give us the video of that item be in pawn that's how we catch them so that we we activity and another thing in the national statistics where we've had it in our st paul is another crime of opportunity with the burglaries and if you have ladders laying on the outside of your home it allows people always use drugs to get access up to the second level  so that's another great tip as to you know if he can get them up to get them away from the house away from the size of the homes other night yes easily exhaustible for crimes of opportunity to get him stored under that shattered daiquiri make them make them a that's a great tip another thing is notify your neighbors we have a great program in the city we have a great reserve program with a lot of reserve officers that are very active in eager they want to be cops they want to come out work hard their eyes and ears for us  ll call into the police department we offer free service and on people all know about it is will do house checks for you when you're out of town doesn't have to be a long stint out of town even a day or two but if it benefits them of a crime or here feel uneasy all that sort of thing so it's a great opportunity especially for the people that leave for the winter we've been seeing over the last couple when are those those those burglaries on the rise the only thing i can think of is number one that houses probably left real dark for long periods of time so it's these families that are in the neighborhood that are in the area that can that are watching these homes are watching you they know they know your patterns they know when you're leave them on the knoll when the house has been vacant for two or three months and we've had some really big ones where they've kicked in doors like other cities and ransack spent a lot of time inside the house and the neighbor didn't even know anybody was in there and stole everything inside the house and we've had no one lady came home and everything was everything was gone inside well so notify your neighbors if you're gone that's a great thing for the block club we have we have some really good active block clubs in the city one big one as are our part by club the mayor is a part of they really really look out for each other they set up neighborhood watch lest they left all the people in their neighborhood they have captains or who should who is going to coordinate that sort of thing  phone numbers for everybody and they they look out for each other so if you guys need help setting up a block club you can certainly give me a call or put a call in your front office and we'll help will send an officer out to help coordinate that  do national night now it's a big thing to get to know your neighbors really break down the barriers really get to know them they that anonymity away from crime that's why crime maybe this anonymity people don't know each other so they think they can take advantage of others so  had that when i came in the staff to her when they came in the c evening we had a lot of really good questions this is about you guys this is about you guys feel uncomfortable and asking us information so we can get it all to you so feel if we if there's somebody enters the house actually steal something typically the protocol standard national burglary or the call come out offered get all your information try to figure out when you jewelry on their arm they're here to make money they're drug addicts or you know they're looking to get money so they go to the pond store and they haunt that's the only way we catch them so that one thing only documentary evidence or document here are valuables will come in  typically will pull some prints to the best of our ability to hold presence prints is not a not an exact science we try to do the best that we can we get them we don't process here in arson all the only body that does it is the bureau of criminal apprehension or st paul police where there's yahoo or whatever opened up a separate account that's just for that you know you all know joe smith that yahoo dot com and you know you have that just for your neighborhood watch thing because you really want to share that information with your neighbors there and you walk out on them list that if you see suspicious vehicles call in there because a lot of times that's how they they're coming into town but we think this the search current burglary stretch up on the north end of town we think it's we believe to be  on foot not not coming in not coming into town anywhere currently maybe in town something like that so we're we're kind of doing some deductive reasoning with some of our frequent flyers and we're all are getting but i would as far as lighting up your home your whole house i really don't think you need to do that i really think a simple solution to that is a motions i'm sure you know just on the corner just something that doesn't have to be drafted for this is the way you yeah all that's a good point because we have we had a guy with a felony warrant here last week and we're we're in inside the police department and the guy was over on the corner here and the guy was watching this felon in doing wanted unfortunately called dispatch and  driving around a lot of them a lot of them have to have permission like upper walls and various play i don't offer i can't say for all but various businesses to do that they have a contract with them but i'm as far as residential residential i'm not and i'd have to figure out where the new lighting is an uphill that sort of thing are sure ok yeah absolutely it was a question about lighting in the new lighting and how we can you know that the new balls are less bright than the old style lighting and if we get more lighting how we can improve  stuff and all really that person is not going home for two weeks and also a simple thing like that is yeah learn your neighbors and that sort of thing so it can we can take away the mail or have somebody get the mail or that that type better what you just did the said the police are out there very quickly ninety five percent of the time where i mean it's a three square mile city as we get the call either the chances of us being in the area right around here were right there so i would say don't engage anybody you never know what kind of weapons they have or or what kind of mental state they're in and just talk about some of the transients population we have our bus routes are pushing out we have different bus routes now we're private more bus drugs than ever lot of the stuff so we can you know like you said they keep eyes and ears on you do some lighting changes and that really really disrupts their patterns and really helps that and that's a great point because i would say that you know i think that suspicious activity you call the police and will come there and give us a reason give us reasonable suspicion to stop that person and say well there you go they could be could be casing your house or you don't know you don't know so that just gives us you know reason to go and stop them identify them hey what are you doing we're watching the news we don't say to call we never tell people who call  in the on like we have been someone actually does enter the premise what sorts of rights as a home or does my wife have or i yeah for any of us and defending ourselves that's a great question that came up earlier before everybody got in here you know it was like i was telling some other homeowners it's a slippery slope you know the definitions of what we can and what we can't do but for a fact a matter of where in minnesota we have different laws and we do say in texas or florida that sort of thing but if you're in  if you're in fear for your life and fear for your wife's life that's justification for other measures if you know what i'm saying is true so you know whether you protect yourself with a firearm or whatever means you just have to justify you know why why you're doing technical these days what with what they can and can't do and how all really good they are as far as window protection and panic alarms and that sort of thing i would recommend one if if you're feeling unsafe that they do great things they go to dispatch right away  so they bypass the phone calls that sort of thing it goes some of them are tied in straight to dispatch to their own dispatching that goes on to our ramsey county dispatch so again they record inside the home voices there i mean they're sound officers are all come out of the check your windows look for displacements look for check your shrubs make sure things are cleaned up around there and other people out of people have a huge bush is that block the windows and allow people to really you know essentially go undisturbed walk around their home where they can hide in those big bush isn't and that's where this give me some tips and show you what to do maybe about lighting were a good place to be for motion sensor and that sort of thing because it is deadbolt locks are another big on the lighting or interior lighting exter lighting anything and basically anything for home security on the you'd like so that was a really nice thing that he's dead they live in town here are very concerned about everything we've reached out to them they're very  it's also great for us to make contact with those people because we've been given the proper resources that they may need whether it's food clothing shelter we do have contact or we can bring them to it freshly during the wintertime cold and that sort of thing we couldn't go down in the winter yes yeah yeah well after the holidays yeah sure you're missing head yes the exile crime goes down and the winner i'd say it's a different types of crime go down and fluctuate throughout the city's fluctuate throughout the times of the year when homes are you we won't see another month or two of the these will be zero these cuts green burglars everybody will be locked in their windows or shut their windows or you may have one of them or one or two like other cities but yeah definitely crime does fluctuate with the weather and summertime there's definitely more assaults as people get heated and weather's hot and that sort of funny you know who hasn't gone yet and own way back they do they grab the credit the credit card and then they're in another city so ferde are saying all fleeced investigated crime in other cities like your credit card stuff that has to go unfortunately has to go through the other city on but it's just connecting the dots and the in vehicles coming in on foot we are getting a lot of this white cars really really coming to fruition that we've probably had three or four color emails and various tips on the car but they haven't got name or license plates have you guys heard anything else on we we got a tip from from some other agencies that some people know who is doing that so we're going to be following up with what that agency like i said we have our  we're going to sign an officer just to work the burglary stuff so will be able to get in contact with the other agencies it's in different counties so they get all that information and then hopefully can narrow it down without without really will touch on it real quick want to see just a doctor it's strategic plan for twenty fifteen twenty twenty and one of those things is better communication not just more communication a better quality communication and so we're looking at things like you know a social media  website but also making sure we have better relationships the newspaper so we get stuff out in the newspaper even though it's once a week but there is a ramsey county has come up so they're working on some things that they actually have as part of that will be kind of a phone system that the cities are part of this can actually use it where we can use it for anything so for example we've got a rash of break ins or we've got meetings like this we can actually set something up through the phone system that if you sign up for it it will set in we put something into a hotel you go you know there's a community meeting know on thursday night at about six thirty i'm so different things like that or not it's an opera never opportunity for us to be able to better communicate the community out there and this would be an example that we could advise people want to own so that's one thing that we're looking at doing but you know anything else you give anybody has any other suggestions on how we can better reach you because we know not everybody's on e mail not everybody's on facebook guy everybody is had maybe had access to a computer so there's other suggestions that people have of how we can reach out to people it's not always possible to send letters to all of one thousand residents but we do try to do targeted communications if we can but the phone system is really going to be a good piece because i believe you can sign up for whether you have a landline at your house or cell phone and i we have to evaluate the systems and see which they are in that it's pictures consistent with what the city wants to do because there's always new apps out there there's ais no us latest and greatest we'd love to do something like that but we want to plan to make sure it's the right thing that we have ploy  a different systems that might come up on those to pay now what the app is and stuff ok well that's what i'm saying that's something we have to decide because it's a can we have to probably be a few on and everything else with too and there are some other things that go in there with getting our information  night it was three o'clock in the morning and i didn't answer it but when i woke up more i got up and i looked at the caller id and it wasn't a number that we recognized and there was no name attached to it so i didn't want to call it back right away in case it was a mistake and well anyway that morning then about eight o'clock i called the number back and it was a recording you could leave a message but not no name attached to it and i did go online and put in the number and it just said it was a cell number from minneapolis now is there any way to find people homework or any other thing is their vision for a lot of credit her breaches are really fishing for your information it will look like it's a regular site like us bank that they sent you the link to but if you click on and look in your h t t then they just they're in it for the money they're in it for the the the these people are going on a town they know who they are and it's related to a brother or somebody related to somebody other knowing that these people are out of town and when they're not there when they're gone because they're comfortable it's not something where they just kick in the door and it's a loud the big noise they're gonna on maybe they make a mistake and we need them on that but the thing is you want to protect your house you want to protect the people that are in there and on your property so so please don't do that kept also mention of a home out of you if you're interested honest look at just say you know all i could see were this would be attractive to somebody you know i mean you sort of always done things but just having somebody else look at that with you it might give you a few steps to go last in that opportunity and that's what we're trying to do in all  or infrared stuff so it and like you know like to cheat it's a crime of opportunity we are going to sooner or later somebody get it that it's a big arrest to go into somebody's house that they're going to get tripped off we're going to get them some home and all it takes is  out depends if it's a felony crime or vulgar juveniles the county attorney does the charging if is that out of gross misdemeanor or less for most part then the city attorney does that so i'm we contract out services for prosecutions for the  other great asset for the city that we didn't talk about today is also our community service officer on that we recently you know with us for me at the last last year it's a great service for you guys have your problems well and you know anything  animals anything of that nature he handles all that stuff he's animal control and community service non sworn position he's just there to help of the city help of the police department i'm still do all kinds of i'm going to do things he goes out there he got parking somebody take a picture of that show here this is the symbol we're looking for we can send that all through try county which is most good association in the future goes out to all the cities out there have you seen anything like that so they'll check their property roams now they're also knowledgeable that so if they make a traffic or drop it off at the back people on your way out some of the questions are in there really geared to these type of things like these different types of services and programs and things that we can offer to the police department to make sure you're getting information as well as communication thing so i really would