A Communication received from Naomie Stephen, Assistant to the Council transmitting consolidated list of questions

1 Special Meeting of the City Council 1.18.2023 CONSOLIDATED QUESTIONS Incident specific 1. Number of responders: I have heard that there were 12+ officers responding to this incident. What is the protocol for how many officers respond, and why are there sometimes so many officers involved? 2. Officer name: There have been calls to release the officer's name. I believe I heard at the meeting that it was a city policy not to release officers' names until after an investigation is completed. Is this a city policy passed by a previous Council, a CPD policy or part of collective bargaining? Policies, procedures, and protocols: 1. Firearm use • What is the policy and training on using firearms? • Why don’t police try to shoot a suspect in the leg or arm rather than upper body? Are you considering any such alternative options in the wake of this shooting? • How many shots are officers trained to respond with? Is this part of standard training? • How often do police use their guns? How often does that use lead to a fatality? • In 2019, I attended a portion of a 3-day de-escalation training held in CPD HQ, which included a re- training of officers who had been taught in the state police academy that they had a certain amount of seconds to fire on someone advancing towards them. There were visuals in the form of a power point presentation provided by the consultant. Can CPD provide that training power point? 2. Mental health protocols: What is standard protocol for a mental health case where the person has a weapon? In how many mental health cases where someone is armed with a knife, does an officer or someone standing by get hurt? 3. Procedures with a knife: What is the specific training policy/standard protocol for an officer who comes face to face with someone who has a knife? What is the training regarding distance and lethal force when faced with a person with a knife? Do the police have any other options besides shooting at the person? Are you considering any such alternative options in the wake of this shooting? 4. Running away: The person was running away, what is the protocol for a person who is running away with a weapon? 5. De-escalation: What does de-escalation look like in general and in this case? Is there anything from this incident that has led to a re-evaluation of the effectiveness of our training in de-escalation? 6. Social workers/co-response model: We do have a staffed social worker on the Police Department staff - why wasn’t that person deployed? 7. Negotiators: What are occasions where a negotiator is sent to a scene? 8. Review of policies, procedures, and protocols: What kind of regular internal review of CPD policies, procedures, and protocols is there? How does this happen? What is the Council’s role in oversight? What is the process to discuss revisions and edits?

2 9. Prior Incidents/Historical Data: Based on research of local news reports someone did for me, going back more than a century, it appears that Cambridge Police officers have only discharged their weapon in the direction of a human four times since 1934: There were two non-fatal shootings in 1934 and 1937 by CPD, Daniel Furtado was shot and killed by CPD in 2002, and Arif Sayed Faisal was shot and killed by CPD in 2023 In both of the recent, and fatal shootings, the victim was experiencing a crisis. Are you aware of any other shooting incidents involving the Cambridge Police over the last hundred years or so? a) It seems like for the last 80 years or so, Cambridge Police have had no reason to fire a gun at someone, other than killing two civilians in crisis. Cambridge Police are currently the first responders to people self- harming with a knife, and in that context having a gun is unnecessary, and in fact potentially fatally dangerous to the person being responded to. How do we transform our approach to Public Safety so that we are not confronting people in that situation with armed police officers? Equipment Specific 1. Body cameras • Why have we not adopted a body camera program? What has stood in the way – union negotiations, cost, concerns about privacy, ACLU concerns, etc.? • The former CM never recommended bodycams or asked the council to fund. Besides allocating the funds, what are the next steps for body cams and will you be pursuing those discussions? Shouldn’t take extensive bargaining, and should only cost any additional for buying units and storing video 2. Less lethal options • What is CPD’s perspective on tasers and the pros/cons of having them? • What other less lethal options is CPD exploring, and what are the pros/cons? 3. Public Dashboard • In November of 2019, a policy order was filed which asked for an update on the Police Departments public facing dashboard that was outlined in the FY19 budget book. When will this be operational? 4. Chapter 2.52 - POLICE DEPARTMENT (2.52.090) of the Cambridge Code of Ordinances requires that each July, the Police Commissioner “shall make” a report to the City Manager including (but not limited to) a detailed inventory of materials and property. The council received such a report for the first time in July 2020 after it was requested via policy order, but updates were not received in July 2021, nor in July 2022. Did the Police Commissioner transmit updated reports to the City Manager in either of the past two years? If so, why haven’t they been shared with the council? Will the Police Commissioner present the updated report as soon as possible? How do we ensure that the Police prepares an updated report each year going forward, as required by law? Office of Community Safety and HEART program: 1. Why hasn’t the community safety department [CSD]staffed up yet – per the December briefing? I note that meanwhile HEART has been able to hire and train many alternative responders for their program. 2. What would have been different in the deployment of staff in response to the call if CSD and alternative response was in place? Police Review + Advisory Board: 1. Section 2.74.040 outlines the duties of the Police Review & Advisory Board. These include:

3 E. The Board shall make quarterly reports to the City Manager, the Mayor, City Council and to the public, of the Department's activities during the previous year, including the handling of complaints, and of future plans. The final disposition of complaints shall be made public; 2. Has the Police Review & Advisory Board produced these quarterly reports, and if so, where can they be accessed by the public? If they have not been produced, why not, and how do we ensure that they are produced quarterly, as required by law, and are published on the council agenda? 3. Another duty of the Police Review and Advisory Board from Section 2.74.040 reads: B. The Board and the City Council shall review the Department budget before it is submitted to the City Manager; When was the last time such a report was produced? Other: 1. What is the response of the city to the criticism that Brian Corr who led the community meeting did not disclose his role as head of the PRAB? 2. We often hear that the Cambridge police department is the best. What stats or evidence do we have for that? 3. What are the pathways for a family of someone killed by the Cambridge Police to receive financial compensation for their loss? If the officer involved is found to have acted improperly, would they be compensated? If the officer is not found to have acted improperly, could they still be compensated?