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OpenGovernmentCommission | 2021-03-01 | 5 | information they wanted, on which their recommendations were based. Erin Fraser stated that that he assembled many of the Subcommittee requests and the City's responses; they set up a process to file information requests through a form, which were prioritized in order to get a response; the Committee made many requests; his list has 20 requests; the Committee also wanted to conduct substantive interviews with members of City staff, particularly members of APD; they were able to get a ton of information and City staff did their very best to provide the information as timely as possible. Erin Gong Liu stated as the Committee's work is coming to a close, one of the major obstacles faced as a volunteer Committee and the deeper a person digs in this kind of work, there is more substantive need to collect data; Commissioner Shabazz emailed the Committee regarding the need for quality data, which the Committee has always echoed since the beginning; they could browse through quantitative records that were made public by the City and APD, but they would also like to code qualitative interactions and get stories and information from folks in the City who maybe did not complete the survey, did not have time to provide numbers, or perhaps were not represented in the numbers that are seen online; one of the ultimate recommendations is the work needs to continue with the help of a full time Analyst and financial resources are needed to continue this type of work; many Committee members have done so much with their time volunteering to be able to parse through the information to create reports and make it logistically clear to everyone; if the work were to continue, it would need more statistical arms. Ayse Sercan stated she was on the Accountability and Oversight Subcommittee; the City simply did not have a lot of the data the Committee was hoping to get as it is just not collected; in reading through the data and doing analysis, they also came to the conclusion that there needs to be a Data Analyst who is deriving and analyzing what data is collected to figure out what is going on; something cannot be reformed if that it is not understood. In response to Commissioner Shabazz's inquiry regarding points of comparison in residential demographics, Debra Mendoza stated there is insider knowledge within the Committee; when a traffic stop is conducted, Police are required to report the race of the individual whether they were an adult or juvenile and the disposition of the traffic stop; basically, there are nuances within the data that they are not getting; they do not have the information, which is available; the information is being captured and just not made available, which is the case for a lot of the data; they did the best they could with analyzing the calls for service that were non-criminal in nature; they met with members of Police and Dispatch to try to understand the categories, but could only go so far. Jono Soglin stated there is a real challenge correlating data; they could not correlate calls for service with specific incidents; coding data to draw conclusions to establish and track outcomes is a deep dive; the quantitative information is there, it just takes a deep dive and someone to go in and correlate and track incidents along the different stages. Meeting of the Open Government Commission March 1, 2021 5 | OpenGovernmentCommission/2021-03-01.pdf |