Cisco advanced technologies have had a positive effect on the management and operations of public safety services in communities like yours and the lessons learned for future preparedness. Leading public safety professionals explained why effective crime prevention and public safety will increasingly become linked to innovative technology, collaboration, and community investment-in short, the human network.
Super Session
| Title | "Changing The Paradigm – Gang Violence in Los Angeles County" A Blueprint for Centralized, Collaborative Gang Suppression, Intervention, & Prevention |
| Speakers | Sheriff Lee Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office Connie Rice, Co-Director, The Advancement Project Moderator: Morgan Wright, Cisco Systems |
After a quarter century of a multi-billion dollar war on gangs, there are six times as many gangs and at least double the number of gang members in the Los Angeles region. Suppression alone—and untargeted suppression in particular—cannot solve this problem. Law enforcement officials now agree that they cannot arrest their way out of the gang violence crisis and that their crime suppression efforts must be linked to competent prevention, intervention, and community-stabilizing investment strategies. This session was about those strategies.
The Southern California Gang Emergency Operations Center (GEOC) is a coordination strategy that represents a multi-faceted centralized framework dependent on technology, to bring together the criminal justice community, social services community, faith and community based service organizations, and local government, under one umbrella. This structural blueprint includes the development of minimum intervention program standards and intervention program assessment and tracking, to ensure public funds are being used effectively.
IACP 2008 Super Session with Lee Baca and Connie Rice - Presentation Highlights
IACP 2008 Super Session with Lee Baca and Connie Rice - Presentation Highlights
Sheriff Lee Baca
Biography
Sheriff Baca commands the largest Sheriff's Department in the United States. He leads over 18,000 budgeted sworn and professional staff. Sheriff Baca is the Director of Homeland Security-Mutual Aid for California Region I, which serves 13 million people. Sheriff Baca incorporates innovative best practices into his leadership style based on pro-active, progressive problem solving. He also manages four non-profit Youth Athletic League Centers serving at-risk youth in after-school programs involving academics, sports, and cultural arts.
Connie Rice
Biography
Connie Rice is co-director of The Advancement Project and a civil rights lawyer known for successfully tackling problems of inequity and exclusion in unorthodox ways. Rice graduated from Harvard College in 1978 and New York University School of Law in 1984. In January of 2007, she released the highly regarded report, "A Call to Action: A Case for a Comprehensive Solution to L.A.'s Gang Violence Epidemic," which was commissioned by the City Council's Ad Hoc Committee on Gang Violence and Youth Development.
Cisco Presentation Theater
Title : Innovation Transforming Public Safety
To show the real power of innovation transforming public safety, Cisco delivered a live theater presentation every 30 minutes that took the audience on a journey through an 8-minute scenario based on actual events. As a gang drive-by shooting takes place, audience members can see events unfold and how technology can help improve the response and increase the speed and precision of the decision-making process.
Solutions shown included:
- Command, Control, and Collaboration
- Automated License Plate Recognition
- Emergency Communications and Collaboration
- Tactical and Command Vehicle Communications
- CAD Sensor and Video Integration
- In-Car Video
- Video Surveillance and Analytics
- Incident Command and Response – NIMS
- Comprehensive Voice Interoperability
- Gunshot Location and Detection with Video
- Mobile Computing and Rugged Handhelds
- Alerting and Notification
Presentation showcasing a real-life scenario of Cisco solutions at work in agencies like yours
