we know that joe mchale gets out into the community. and those things pay dividends because it's a change from what used to happen. and i'm not just talking sitting in a car. they're out talking with people engaging with people and creating those relationships that are necessary. so the benefit of having a police department that is aware of the current environment and making adjustments to fit into that environment and adjust to it, absolutely priceless. the cost of doing that not necessarily always the money. maybe we need to be thinking of how do we deploy technology, how do we reorganize organizations? how do we tear down the walls and the silos inside departments so that information flows easier and people collaborate. so that there's a much more cohesive focused approach to the problem. and if we can do that we can afford the costs and reap the benefit. thank you. [applause] >> i think i have a presentation loaded up here somewhere. i'm not sure how to get to it. again, my name is t bowman. i go by t. i'm fortunate to follow the ma

my name is joe mchale. [laughter] all right. at any rate, some of that $540 million general fund, 72% is allocated to fire, police and endless. the rest issues were streets, curbs, sidewalks, trees, 90 yada, yada. anything else. and it's beginning to be an issue. and it's beginning to be an issue because as we do our five year projections, the percentage keeps going up and up and up and up. and as it goes further and further up, the pressure on us to do the things that the public wants to do as exemplified our citizen satisfaction survey, which is streets, roads, particularly sidewalks and curbs, is becoming greater and greater and we have less and less money to do it. we're going to try to do an $800 million bond initiative to take off some of the pressure and address other problems. that does not relieve the pressure on the budget of providing the services. should we provide police services, absolutely. we should. we should provide them as effectively as we can. because our ridiculous we cap homicide rate is unacceptable. our

my name is joe mchale. [laughter] all right. at any rate, some of that $540 million general fund, 72% is allocated to fire, police and endless. the rest issues were streets, curbs, sidewalks, trees, 90 yada, yada. anything else. and it's beginning to be an issue. and it's beginning to be an issue because as we do our five year projections, the percentage keeps going up and up and up and up. and as it goes further and further up, the pressure on us to do the things that the public wants to do as example five our citizen satisfaction survey, which is streets, roads, particularly sidewalks and curbs, is becoming greater and greater and we have less and less money to do it. .. ... sdwl reour >> it is unacceptable and our assault with a deadly weapon rate is unacceptable. from a relative lay person position, my question is do you solve that problem by more police officers or do you solve it in other ways? i am not sure i have the answer but i know as we are talking about new methods and modalities of training and things that need to

following him will be joel mchale who is a major in the kansas city police department. we know joe and we respected joe in large part because he headed up are smart policing initiative in kansas city called the no files allies and did a tremendous job. dyed in the wool police officer who can set a vision and make things happen like i've not seen any other person to in a long time. very impressive. i think other thing i want to say about you is he spun one of police officers in the country, one of the very few who can go around the country and teach people about social network analysis. so this is presented to him as part of the police initiatives, pretty sophisticated analytical approach to understanding social networks and gain networks. working within an interrupting them, he embraced it as they please manager and supervisor. he really dug into the statistical techniques and i told you about social network analysis. very conversant on the. following him will be harold madlock also someone just under three years extremes in law enforcement. he recently spent three years as the pol

following him will be joel mchale who is a major in the kansas city police department. we know joe and we respected joe in large part because he headed up are smart policing initiative in kansas city called the no files allies and did a tremendous job. dyed in the wool police officer who can set a vision and make things happen like i've not seen any other person to in a long time. very impressive. i think other thing i want to say about you is he spun one of police officers in the country, one of the very few who can go around the country and teach people about social network analysis. so this is presented to him as part of the police initiatives, pretty sophisticated analytical approach to understanding social networks and gain networks. working within an interrupting them, he embraced it as they please manager and supervisor. he really dug into the statistical techniques and i told you about social network analysis. very conversant on the. following him will be harold madlock also someone just under three years extremes in law enforcement. he recently spent three years as the pol