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1. WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Dunn, Abreu, Giesta, Council President Lopes, Councillors Lima, Carney, Markey, Gomes and Baptiste, requesting, that Police Chief Cordeiro, Public Information Officer Scott Carola and Police Union President Turgeon be invited to a meeting of the Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods to discuss providing the Council and public with a weekly crime report with up to date statistics on violent crime, property crime, and other crime, the crime data should be compiled both in a Citywide and Ward specific format; and further, the report should show trends based on previous weeks. (To be Referred to the Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods.) (Ref’d 02/25/2021)

2. WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Dunn, Abreu, Giesta, Council President Lopes, Councillors Morad, Lima, Carney, Markey and Gomes, requesting that New Bedford Police Department conduct an evaluation of the Shot Spotter program, the efficacy of the program, analyze the data the system gathers, and assess how to ensure that this tool is properly functioning, assuming the Police Department finds the program to be an effective tool, the evaluation should be conducted on an annual basis going forward. (To be Referred to Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods, Police Chief Cordeiro and Police Union President Hank Turgeon.) (Ref’d 02/25/2021)

3. WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Dunn, Abreu, Giesta, Council President Lopes, Lima, Carney, Markey and Gomes, requesting, that New Bedford Police Chief Cordeiro brief the City Council on the recent shootings at the Brickenwood Housing Development and on Tallman Street. (To be Referred to Committee on Public Safety and Neighborhoods, Police Chief Cordeiro and Police Union President Hank Turgeon.) (Ref’d 02/25/2021)

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