City of Milwaukee - File #: 990670

• File #: 990670
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/29/1999
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
• Final action: 11/9/1999
• Title: Substitute resolution relating to enforcement of "quality of life" ordinances.
• Sponsors: ALD. BUTLER
• Indexes: CRIME PREVENTION, CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
11/18/1999	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
11/9/1999	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED; Minutes note: Ald. Butler moved for separate action. (The motion prevailed.) Ald. Butler moved to approve notwithstanding the recommendation of the Public Safety Committee. Prevailed.	Pass	9:8
10/28/1999	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PLACING ON FILE; Minutes note: (Note: Qtrly reports to be sent to Public Safety Committee and Fire and Police Commission would analyze the data).	Pass	5:0
10/21/1999	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
10/21/1999	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
10/21/1999	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
10/7/1999	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR	Pass	4:0
10/6/1999	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
9/30/1999	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
7/29/1999	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

NUMB:

990670

VERS:

SUBSTITUTE 1

REF:

XXBY:

ALD. BUTLER

TITL:

Substitute resolution relating to enforcement of "quality of life" ordinances.

ANLS:

- Analysis -

This resolution requests the Police Department to maintain detailed records and statistics related to quality of life ordinance violations, including the race, gender and ethnicity of each person involved, the location of the violation, as well as records of citizen complaints related to the enforcement of these ordinances. Furthermore, the Fire and Police Commission is requested to analyze the data collected by the Police Department and submit a quarterly report of its findings to the Public Safety Committee of the Common Council.

BODY:

Whereas, The Milwaukee Police Department, under Chief Arthur Jones' direction, has embarked upon a stringent enforcement of "quality of life" ordinances; and

Whereas, These ordinances include City regulations relating to littering, public streets, excessive noise, pets, public drinking, prostitution, all-night parking, abandoned vehicles, loitering, curfew, licensing of bicycles, sale of cigarettes to minors, etc.; and

Whereas, Chief Jones believes that strict enforcement of such ordinances is a form of "preventive maintenance" that prevents disorder; and

Whereas, The notion of quality-of-life policing is to fully enforce minor offenses to discourage major crimes; and

Whereas, There is a growing concern in the community that the Police Department's campaign of enforcing quality of life ordinances may have an adverse impact on current police-community relations within the city; and

Whereas, The Police Department must take a pro-active approach to addressing citizens' concerns of unequal enforcement and disparate treatment of individuals; and

Whereas, For the quality of life initiative to succeed, citizens must be assured that the ordinances are enforced equally and fairly throughout the city; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Common Council requests that:

1. The Police Department keep detailed records and statistics related to quality of life ordinance violations, including the race, gender and ethnicity of each person involved, and the location of the violation.

2. The Police Department maintain records by race, gender and ethnicity of citizen complaints related to the enforcement of quality of life ordinances, including complaints where there were no arrests or citations issued.

3. The Fire and Police Commission analyze the data collected by the Police Department and submit a report of its findings on a quarterly basis, beginning with a report on the last quarter of 1999, to the Public Safety Committee of the Common Council which will release the report to members of the media and to interested citizens for public examination.

ZDPT:

DFTR:

LRB97485.2

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10/5/99