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Pacific Area
Community Police Advisory Board
Minutes – Board Meeting
February 18, 2009
Present: Arnie Corlin, Linda Fisher, J.W. Flannigan, Gail Flannigan, Fred Ealey, Jr., Rob Kadota, Pat Karasick, Bill Koontz, Harris Levey, Elizabeth Narvaez, Ana Petrova, Gloria Prado, Marisa Stewart, Dawn Suskin, Carol Tantau, Nancy Wileman, Chris Williams
LAPD Personnel: Captain Joe Hiltner, Officer Kristan Delatorre, SLO Garcia, SLO Skinner, SLO Wicks, Officer Trish Luevanos, CPU, Officer Paul Bowser
Excused: Hilary C. Brown, Cyndi Hench, and J.D. Webster
Guests: Jim Sakaus, Jennifer Badger
Members and guests introduced themselves.
Minutes were approved with the clarification to be added about search warrants vs. rollbacks from Captain Hiltner. Search warrants are issued by a judge based on Facts presented to the judge whereas a roll back search is typically a search conducted as a result of information developed from as arrest and the officers or detectives go back to a location (roll back) to search for evidence of the crime. Often times these searches are consensual in nature but may be based on a warrant. Motion put forward by Nancy Wileman and seconded by Chris Williams.
Captain Hiltner’s Report- Year to date Pacific is enjoying 9% reduction in Part I crimes. He gave tribute to the officers and community members giving good information on suspects. CPAB Members as ambassadors on the community need to report suspicious behaviors observed immediately not waiting for neighborhood watch meetings or CPAB meetings. Please call 911 if the situation is an emergency or call the Station, if it is simply some information that you need to communicate to station personnel, but is not of an urgent or emergency nature. We do not want to miss out on opportunities to catch suspects.
Westchester is still having problems with sidekick phones being taken by means of street robberies.. A plea to members and community to lock their cars and keep items out of view. Computers can now have cameras installed so that when a person logs on it tracks the suspects’ actions. Some computers also have a means of creating a video of the computer operator’s actions.
Pat Karasick’ Report: NNO planning meetings will be held during this meeting. ID photos will be taken. New ID cards almost ready. City By-laws handed out to new members.
Committee Reports:
Youth- developing a master calendar of all events for youth highlighting pre-teenagers.
Events at all the parks will be coordinated to prevent conflicting scheduling.
Communications: Pacific.Beat.net is a good website, but needs to be updated. Goal to make the website more users friendly.
Outreach: Goals to maintain a yearly calendar and distribute information about events. Goals will be developed for each event. Committee sees the need to communicate better with Senior Leads and increase business and community support. The mission is to make events better with better publicity and increase community participation.
Traffic: Mobility Action met. DOT is understaffed. The money for speed bumps is exhausted. Working with L.A. Film to coordinate street parking, street cleaning and filming permits. Abbot Kinney has filming restrictions. Playa Vista has a prohibition.
Nancy Wileman questioned where the money for the Cheviot Hills calming areas came from and who is supposed to maintain them.
Announcements
SLO Garcia announced a find raiser for Baker to Vegas team tomorrow at the station, $7.00 donation. Run is March 14 & 15, volunteers are needed.
Mar Vista Park is having a Plug-In recycling project, Friday, Feb. 20, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
CRO- Report on Boosters fundraiser at Calendars’ Grill next month.
Spring Carnival in front of the Station March 20-22. There will be 15-18 rides, games and food. Tickets can be purchased ahead of time $15.00 for 24 tickets. Each ride will require 2-3 tickets each. Explorers will have their own booth selling hot dogs, chips and drinks keeping 100% of the profits.
Chris Williams, rumor control, Oakwood is not being converted to low-income housing. Venice Neighborhood Council will be holding elections this weekend.
Jennifer Badger is a new representative of the Mayor’s Office working on the Westside. She has recently moved from Councilman Weiss’s office. She will be working with Stephen Cheung. She can be reached at 310-479-3823 or Jennifer.badger@lacity.org
Officer Trish Luevanos, Community Policing Unit
Unit would like CPABs to be more standardized using the Mayor’s Volunteer application, by-laws, and yearly goals. The Chief would like CPABs to add community service as one of their objectives. The CPAB Summit is scheduled for June 6. There is a planning meeting on March 30; more information will be forwarded when available. Any CPAB member may volunteer to plan the event. Three different locations are being investigated this year. Officer Delatorre advised that this is the same date for the Reserve dinner at the Peterson Museum.
Night Out On Crime, Tuesday, August 4. Co-Chair Pat Karasick assigned groups to plan appropriate activities based either around a school or park.
Groups reported back ideas to be further developed in time for the event to be successful.
Westchester Recreation Center will be having an afternoon parade to discourage youths from hanging around the bus stop.
Oakwood Recreation Center will host a mixer 6-8 P.M. with live music and an emphasis on kid safety.
Mar Vista will pass out leaflets to homeless people in the area with information of city and state resources available to them. To be followed with a bar-be que and movie.
Palms plans to commemorate the evening. Need to meet the Senior Lead Officer and community at another time.
Venice area?
Thank you for a productive meeting. Next meeting, March 18 at 7:00 P.M. Playa Vista Conference Room.
Respectfully submitted,
Pat Karasick, CPAB Co-Chair
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