WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:05:11.5340000" NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.280 I think we want to look at all of the factors NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:06.190 that go into police stop. NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:06.190 --> 00:00:08.100 There he was in June, NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:08.100 --> 00:00:10.879 DC Police Chief Peter Newsham once again NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:10.879 --> 00:00:13.069 testifying in front of DC Council, NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:13.070 --> 00:00:14.970 Albiet virtually this time because NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:14.970 --> 00:00:16.870 of covid about more racially NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:16.930 --> 00:00:18.800 imbalanced stop and frisk data. NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:21.404 W USA 9's analysis of MPD's most NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:21.404 --> 00:00:22.976 recently released numbers found NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:22.976 --> 00:00:25.286 between July 22nd and December 31st, NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:25.290 --> 00:00:27.075 2019, Black People were six NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:27.075 --> 00:00:29.368 times more likely to be searched NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:29.368 --> 00:00:31.528 and seven times more likely. NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:31.530 --> 00:00:34.066 To be first by DC police than whites. NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:34.070 --> 00:00:35.630 That's despite the fact Blacks NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:35.630 --> 00:00:37.563 and whites make up roughly the NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:37.563 --> 00:00:39.158 same amount of DC's population. NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:40.111 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:40.111 --> 00:00:42.330 asking Chief Newsham what is MPD going NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:42.382 --> 00:00:44.248 to do about those concerning statistics? NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:44.250 --> 00:00:46.218 So I think that one of NOTE Confidence: 0.8556603 00:00:46.218 --> 00:00:47.750 the things we're doing is NOTE Confidence: 0.8418295 00:00:47.750 --> 00:00:49.622 we've been reaching out to research NOTE Confidence: 0.8418295 00:00:49.622 --> 00:00:51.568 groups to try and figure out NOTE Confidence: 0.8418295 00:00:51.568 --> 00:00:53.470 what our stops should look like. NOTE Confidence: 0.8418295 00:00:53.470 --> 00:00:55.646 Because, you know, you get hit with that NOTE Confidence: 0.8418295 00:00:55.646 --> 00:00:57.610 number of a disproportionate stops. NOTE Confidence: 0.8418295 00:00:57.610 --> 00:00:59.506 And everybody's like, Oh my God, NOTE Confidence: 0.8418295 00:00:59.510 --> 00:01:03.170 we got to do something to fix this and it. NOTE Confidence: 0.8418295 00:01:03.170 --> 00:01:04.166 We do have to fix it, NOTE Confidence: 0.8418295 00:01:04.170 --> 00:01:05.010 then we gotta fix it. NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:05.660 --> 00:01:07.032 Studying that stop and NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:07.032 --> 00:01:08.747 frisk data is a promise. NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:08.750 --> 00:01:10.802 MPD in DC government have been NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:10.802 --> 00:01:12.945 making since last September when the NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:12.945 --> 00:01:14.715 Department released its first police NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:14.715 --> 00:01:17.317 stop report as required by the Near Act, NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:17.320 --> 00:01:19.480 our reporting showed DC police delayed NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:22.117 collecting that data for more than two years. NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:24.646 And now we've learned district leaders NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:24.646 --> 00:01:26.970 are running behind again when it NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:26.970 --> 00:01:29.266 comes to the pledge to dig into the NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:29.336 --> 00:01:31.792 data to find out why Blacks are stop NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:31.792 --> 00:01:33.786 and frisk more often than whites. NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:33.786 --> 00:01:34.818 And most importantly, NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:34.820 --> 00:01:36.590 what needs to be done. NOTE Confidence: 0.8631274 00:01:36.590 --> 00:01:38.380 To stop that from happening, but NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:01:38.380 --> 00:01:39.865 the role in which policing NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:01:39.865 --> 00:01:41.060 has in communities. And NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:01:41.060 --> 00:01:42.770 here's DCS, deputy mayor for public NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:01:42.770 --> 00:01:44.340 safety and Justice Kevin Donohue, NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:01:44.340 --> 00:01:46.349 10 months ago, telling us the districts NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:01:46.349 --> 00:01:48.810 was ready to move forward with its study. NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:01:48.810 --> 00:01:50.300 The first thing we're going NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:01:50.300 --> 00:01:52.556 to do in recognizing that this is a NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:01:52.556 --> 00:01:54.101 very difficult challenges we're going NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:01:54.101 --> 00:01:56.592 to bring in an outside party an outside NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:01:56.592 --> 00:01:58.650 firm to study it in dependently to NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:01:58.650 --> 00:02:00.710 give them access to body camera footage NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:02:00.710 --> 00:02:03.190 to give them access to all the data NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:02:03.190 --> 00:02:05.092 that we have and make recommendations NOTE Confidence: 0.86468524 00:02:05.092 --> 00:02:07.240 about what does fair look like. Off NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:09.676 camera, Donahue told us the bids NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:09.676 --> 00:02:11.658 for that research project would NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:11.658 --> 00:02:13.674 go out in the fall of 2019. NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:16.256 MPD even wrote it into the next Steps NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:16.256 --> 00:02:18.814 portion of its first Stop data report NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:18.814 --> 00:02:21.097 saying it was quote pursuing both NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:21.097 --> 00:02:23.311 public and private options to support NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:23.311 --> 00:02:25.467 this sort of rigorous an independent NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:25.467 --> 00:02:27.561 research and that the Department would NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:27.561 --> 00:02:30.133 be working with a team of scientists NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:30.133 --> 00:02:31.573 in Mayor Bowser's administration, NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:31.580 --> 00:02:33.728 known as the lab at DC, NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:33.730 --> 00:02:35.705 to quote ensure that any NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:35.705 --> 00:02:36.890 independent researchers engaged. NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:36.890 --> 00:02:39.146 Do this in a transparent in NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:39.146 --> 00:02:40.274 scientifically valid manner, NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:43.000 such as by sharing a pre analysis plan NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:46.315 to be reviewed by experts in the field. NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:46.320 --> 00:02:48.200 So who are those experts? NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:48.200 --> 00:02:50.867 We asked some of the top criminal NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:50.867 --> 00:02:52.849 justice programs in the country NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:52.849 --> 00:02:55.516 and we're told if you're going to NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:55.516 --> 00:02:57.629 conduct a study on police data, NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:57.630 --> 00:02:59.597 this is the list you turn to NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:02:59.597 --> 00:03:02.020 more than a dozen names from NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:02.020 --> 00:03:04.028 police foundations to professors, NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:04.030 --> 00:03:05.678 chairs of University Department's NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:05.678 --> 00:03:07.738 two Centers for crime policy. NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:07.740 --> 00:03:09.840 We contacted all of them and NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.216 discovered none have heard from the NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:12.216 --> 00:03:14.040 DC Metropolitan Police Department, NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:14.040 --> 00:03:15.416 so if not them, NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:15.416 --> 00:03:19.168 just who has MPD hired to analyze its police, NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:19.170 --> 00:03:21.534 stop data and when will DC NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:21.534 --> 00:03:23.110 residents see the results? NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:23.110 --> 00:03:23.506 Well, NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:23.506 --> 00:03:25.486 we discovered the work may NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:25.486 --> 00:03:27.440 not have even started yet. NOTE Confidence: 0.8521571 00:03:27.440 --> 00:03:28.230 So what's NOTE Confidence: 0.86172 00:03:28.230 --> 00:03:30.200 the timeline on the research? NOTE Confidence: 0.86172 00:03:30.200 --> 00:03:33.928 I'm sorry. I'm sorry the timeline. NOTE Confidence: 0.8438028 00:03:35.310 --> 00:03:38.014 Just listen to Chief Newsham at that DC NOTE Confidence: 0.8438028 00:03:38.014 --> 00:03:40.232 Council hearing last month he appeared to NOTE Confidence: 0.8438028 00:03:40.232 --> 00:03:42.818 be caught off guard by the question so I NOTE Confidence: 0.8438028 00:03:42.820 --> 00:03:45.718 don't do you have a timeline NOTE Confidence: 0.8438028 00:03:45.718 --> 00:03:47.890 on it currently? Oh yes, NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:03:47.890 --> 00:03:49.670 remember MPD has been calling NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:03:49.670 --> 00:03:51.450 this project a priority since NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:03:51.510 --> 00:03:53.260 last September 10 months ago. NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:03:53.260 --> 00:03:55.045 So what was Chief Newsham's NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:03:55.045 --> 00:03:57.190 reason for the delay? So a NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:03:57.190 --> 00:03:59.801 lot of the work on it has NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:03:59.801 --> 00:04:01.489 been delayed because of the NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:01.490 --> 00:04:02.624 public health emergency. NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:02.624 --> 00:04:04.892 DC Police Chief Peter Newsham blaming NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:04.892 --> 00:04:06.641 coronavirus for his priority project NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:06.641 --> 00:04:08.286 remaining in the planning stages. NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:08.290 --> 00:04:09.722 According to MPD's most NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:09.722 --> 00:04:11.154 recent stop data report, NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:11.160 --> 00:04:13.122 the Department now says it's going NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:13.122 --> 00:04:15.335 to rely on a partnership between NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:15.335 --> 00:04:18.254 those scientists at the lab at DC. NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:18.260 --> 00:04:19.812 And the innovative policing NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:19.812 --> 00:04:22.140 program at Georgetown Law to bring NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:22.207 --> 00:04:24.052 together that team of independent NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:24.052 --> 00:04:26.280 experts to figure out the best, NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:26.280 --> 00:04:28.190 most fair way to analyze NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:28.190 --> 00:04:29.718 MPD's police stop data. NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:31.630 So, we called Georgetown law. NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:31.630 --> 00:04:34.686 They told us even that hasn't started yet. NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:34.690 --> 00:04:36.218 Once again citing covid. NOTE Confidence: 0.8545632 00:04:36.218 --> 00:04:38.510 So while DC waits to start NOTE Confidence: 0.86306703 00:04:38.510 --> 00:04:40.680 this project, we've learned at NOTE Confidence: 0.86306703 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:42.850 least one other Police Department NOTE Confidence: 0.86306703 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:45.416 in our area has been able to move NOTE Confidence: 0.86306703 00:04:45.416 --> 00:04:47.765 forward with data research in the NOTE Confidence: 0.86306703 00:04:47.765 --> 00:04:49.835 midst of the coronavirus pandemic. NOTE Confidence: 0.86306703 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:51.372 Here in Fairfax County, NOTE Confidence: 0.86306703 00:04:51.372 --> 00:04:53.287 the Independent police auditor has NOTE Confidence: 0.86306703 00:04:53.287 --> 00:04:55.218 been working with the researcher NOTE Confidence: 0.86306703 00:04:55.218 --> 00:04:57.073 at the University of Texas, NOTE Confidence: 0.86306703 00:04:57.080 --> 00:04:59.616 San Antonio to analyze the role of race NOTE Confidence: 0.86306703 00:04:59.616 --> 00:05:02.351 in use of force incidents and that NOTE Confidence: 0.86306703 00:05:02.351 --> 00:05:05.080 research has been ongoing since February.