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Goal 1. Reduce Crime and Enhance Public Safety in the Commonwealth.

Objectives:

MMCC is Committed to Innovative Strategies to Reduce and Prevent Crime.

- Identify and adapt cutting-edge practices in:

Crime and problem analysis
Anti-crime technology
Collaborative, community-based problem-solving

Special Focus on Stopping Gun Violence.

- Reduce gang violence, using proven methods and non-traditional civil enforcement remedies:

Stay Away Orders
Seizures of traditional and non-traditional assets
Convene a symposium on use of civil remedies as part of a regular MMCC meeting; include chiefs, city attorneys, housing officials and other key stakeholders.

Develop a National Model for Prisoner Reentry.

- Initial Action Steps:

Working Group Co-Chairs
Working Group Members
Refine the objectives
Create smaller working units using department personnel
Identify outstanding practices

Goal 2. Reform Police Hiring and Training in the Commonwealth.

Objectives:

Create a Total Paradigm Shift in Police Training.

Reform Police Employment Practices.

- Sponsor objective research that:

Describes workings of the current hiring system (reach out to HRD)
Gathers best practices from around the country
Proposes reforms that include:
- Degree requirements for entry, modeled on nursing, teaching, law and medical professions
- Elimination of civil service for police
- Probationary period for promoted officers
- Licensure/certification
- Granting of tenure at the sergeant level rather than automatic lifetime appointment
- Immediacy
- Timely Appeals
- Self-policing of standards, e.g. medical societies
- Strategies for stepped-up recruiting of minority officers
- New training program for new promotions

Reform Civil Service Arbitration.

Reform the Civil Service System for Hiring and Promotions.

- Address:

Hiring
Residency restrictions
Absolute preferences
Criteria for promotion
Use of probationary periods
Educational requirements for entry (Bachelors degree)
Enact programs to ensure an ongoing stream of qualified minority community candidates for the profession

Design and Advocate for New Formation Procedures that are Similar to other Professions.

- Initial Action Steps:

Working Group Co-Chairs
Working Group Members
Refine the objectives
Create smaller working units using department personnel
Commission research to be directed by the Working Group
Identify outstanding practices

Goal 3. Become a Leading Voice for Racial Justice in the Commonwealth.

Objectives:

Make a long-term commitment to Racial Justice in
Criminal Justice and Public Safely Practices.

Support continuing data collection on motor vehicle stops
- Ensure Transparency
Encourage and participate in an ongoing dialogue on race and justice
- Community forums
- Within all community policing practices
- Enhance partnerships with Northeastern and EOPS
Identify the links between economic development and public safety
- Participate in exploring systemic issues such as access to education and transportation
- Review the Brookings Institution “Gateway Report”

Address Bias-based Policing; Enhance Minority Community-Police Relations.

- Initial Action Steps:

Working Group Co-Chairs
Working Groups Members
Refine the objectives
Commission research to be directed by the Working Group

Goal 4. Become the Progressive Voice for Policing in the Commonwealth.

Objectives:

Develop a model Leadership Institute.

Include a “School for Future Chiefs” developed with an academic partner
Model this idea in the implementation of these goals and objectives. Create cross-departmental Working Groups, chaired by MMCC chiefs, made up of top subordinates. Develop their executive skills through the work: Master-Apprentice Model

Create a Leadership Development Forum.

Disseminate best practices

Become the Leadership Development Forum for Policing in Massachusetts.

Quarterly educational seminars, with one full-day seminar per year that is open to other NE Chiefs
Ask Paul Evans to come back to contrast/compare with British models
Set up website
Use Share Point
Delegate R&D to Working Groups

Educate the Public, Legislature, Media, Academics and others.

Full-day seminars
Research and development/white papers
Regular policy discussions with EOPS: get in front of emerging issues

Constant Exchange of Information, Best Practices and Willingness to Challenge the Status Quo.

Advocate for Statewide Standards.

Pursuit policies
Racial Profiling
Use of Force
Work with EOPS/Executive Branch
CALEA and IACP templates

Become the Authoritative Voice for Progressive Policing in Massachusetts.

Re-publish the White Paper
Refresh relationship with the academic community
Start with less controversial initiatives as an easy way to overcome inertia
Promote best practices
Develop a MMCC web site
Use Share Point to enhance conversation and debate

Create a Powerful Legislative Voice for MMCC.

Develop strategies for educating members of the legislature
- Conferences
- Symposia
- Smaller meeting
- White Papers (research and development capability)

Use monthly meetings as development tool and to implement the Strategic Plan.

Develop a 12-month calendar of:
- Topics for discussion and decisions and
- Professional development topics
- Use panels of members to present and lead discussions
Use Working Groups chaired by members to move work forward
Annual Legislative Symposium (proposed elsewhere as well)

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