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)