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Today in History
The Republican Party, comprised of former Whig Party
members opposing slavery, is established in Ripon,
Wisconsin.
— March 20, 1854
Food 4 Thought
“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the
grasp of executive power.”
— Daniel W ebster
The Month Ahead
Continuing
Keizer Art Association presents its March show: Home is
Where the Heart Is at the Enid Joy Mount Gallery. Gallery
hours are 1-4 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Saturdays. keizerarts.com.
Pentacle Theatre’s run of The New Mel Brooks Musical:
Young Frankenstein, directed by Robert Salberg. Tickets
are $24. Visit pentacletheatre.org for show times and
availability.
Through Tuesday, March 31
Vintage hats, glove and handbags from the private
collection of Kathe Leigh Mash on display at Keizer
Heritage Museum. 2-4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10
a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays. keizerheritage.org.
Friday, March 20 – Saturday, March 21
The annual Deepwood Estate Erythronium and native
plant sale will be held from 10 am. to 3 p.m. both days at
the estate at Mission and 12th Streets in Salem. 503-363-
1825. historicdeepwoodestate.org. Free admission.
Saturday, March 21
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus LIVE!
Starring Peter Story in the theatrical comedy based on
the best-selling book. Begins at 7:30 p.m. at The Historic
Elsinore Theatre.
Sunday, March 22
Los Lobos, 7:30 p.m. at The Historic Elsinore Theatre.
Tuesday, March 24
Government Affairs meeting, 7:30 a.m. at Keizer Civic
Center.
Keizer Arts Commission meeting, 6 p.m. in council
chambers at Keizer Civic Center.
Thursday, March 26
Keizer Traffic Safety/Bikeways/Pedestrian Committee
meeting, 6 p.m. in council chambers at Keizer Civic
Center.
Saturday, April 4
Artists’ reception and awards presentation for 25th annual
Colored Pencil Exhibition at Keizer Art Association,
2-4 p.m. Annual show of the Colored Pencil Society of
America runs through April 29. Reception is open to the
public. 980 Chemawa Rd. N.E. keizerarts.com.
Tuesday, April 14
Supports and Services Fair for people with intellectual and
development disabilities, 3-7 p.m, Keizer Civic Center.
Presented by Marion County Developmental Disability
Services. Meet providers and vendors of disability services
including housing employment, case management
and adaptive equipment. Free. 503-361-2671. www.
co.marion.or.us/HLT/DD/.
A look inside the Keizer Police
Department’s strategic shift
By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
The Keizer Police Depart-
ment is all about the POP.
Since John Teague returned
to the KPD and took over as
police chief in the fall of 2013,
a shift has been accelerating.
With the shift, problem-ori-
ented policing (POP) is now a
way of life at the department.
In simple terms, KPD per-
sonnel now use whatever re-
sources deemed necessary
to be proactive in regards to
crime, instead of merely react-
ing.
The KPD still has officers
on regular patrols. Those offi-
cers still respond to calls. De-
tectives still investigate crimes.
But now resources have
been changed around. The de-
partment has a full-time crime
analyst, Cara Steele, who can
look over data and spot trends
or clumps of crimes happen-
ing in a small time frame or
similar locations.
Teague shifted motorcycle
patrol officer resources and
brought back the mostly dor-
mant Community Response
Unit, a four-member team
heavily involved with build-
ing relationships to take on
long-standing problems such
as drug houses and organized
retail crime.
Officers not only have
more time to concentrate on
doing patrols, they can directly
share what they find on patrol
with other units such as CRU
while helping to figure out
problems that don’t always re-
quire using handcuffs.
“Part of the shift is mov-
ing away from traditional po-
licing to problem-oriented
policing,” Teague said. “COP
(community-oriented polic-
ing) is a tactic of POP; POP is
the philosophy. The purpose is
to identify the root problems
and solve them. Sometimes
you involve the community;
that is one of the tactics. COP
didn’t really gain traction until
recently.”
While at the Dallas Po-
lice Department, Teague
was working on a thesis on
Disproportionate
Minority
Contacts in the Department
of Corrections at Western
Oregon University when he
talked with Craig Prins, exec-
utive director of the Oregon
Criminal Justice Commis-
sion, about reducing the cost
of crimes and incarcerations.
That led to Teague extending
his thesis for a year and chang-
ing his focus to evidence-
based policing.
Teague said research led law
enforcement leaders around
the country down the wrong
path for years dating back to
the early 1970s, including the
notion that officers should not
use any discretion but instead
follow the law to the letter.
On a national scale, Teague
said that philosophy has been
quickly changing.
“I just happened to be pay-
ing attention to the shift in the
industry,” he said. “I was in the
right place at the right time
and paid attention to the right
things.”
POP was coined in 1979 by
Herman Goldstein, a professor
at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1987, John Eck and William
Spelman expanded the model
into SARA (Scanning, Analy-
sis, Response and Assessment).
“If using SARA didn’t cur-
tail crime, you’d go back to the
scan and do it over,” recalled
Jeff Kuhns, the KPD deputy
chief. “That was the word we
used within our agency. Now
we’re onto POP.”
In other words, not only is
POP far from a new idea, it’s
actually far from new to the
KPD.
Kuhns, who has been at
the department more than 25
years, said former chief Marc
Adams had started the imple-
mentation before retiring in
early 2013.
“They keep attributing the
new COP to chief Teague,”
Kuhns said. “That’s a fallacy.
This agency has been aware of
POP for years. The key thing
this gentleman (Teague) has
done is he has renewed our
agency’s focus on COP. He’s
done that by doing two key
things. One is mitigating or
reducing the amount of time
for officers to be inputting
data so they can be free to
problem solve. That helps find
root problems. And he’s re-
upped the CRU team, which
had been mothballed. They
can go the extra mile on big-
ger problems to solve them.”
“It takes some
willingness
to leave the
comfort of
numbers. But
it’s the right
thing to do,
man.”
— John Teague, KPD
police chief
Teague noted he was at a
recent Keizer Rotary meet-
ing with Adams when he was
again credited for introducing
a new concept to Keizer.
“He laid the foundation for
all of this, whether it took off
or not,” Teague said of Adams.
“Generally it has not taken off
anywhere until very recently.
Everyone was operating in
fits and starts with POP in the
1990s.”
Teague, who started at
KPD the same day in 1989
as Kuhns but was gone more
than four years to serve as
police chief in Dallas before
returning in 2013, said com-
munity policing has a long
history in Keizer.
“It’s important to note
with community policing
that Chuck Stull introduced
it here,” Teague said of Keizer’s
police chief who was termi-
nated in 1997. “Adams was
hired to build upon that. Now
Tuesday, April 16 – Saturday, May 2
The Country Wife Willamette University, 900 State Street,
go to willamette.edu/cla/theater for tickets information.
For more information email tht-tix@willamette.edu or
(503)370-6221.
Saturday, April 25
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci starts at 9:55 a.m. at
Regal Santiam Stadium 11, 365 Lancaster Drive SE.
Directed by Sir David McVicar. Tickets are available at
the door, $22 for seniors and $26 for general. (503) 983-
6030.
Saturday, May 2
Fabric Fair, Salem Scottish Rite Center, 4090 Commercial
Street SE. Noon to 4 p.m. Large variety of fabric and
notions for sale to benefit charities. 503-409-2543.
facebook.com/fabricfair.
Sunday, May 3
Extraordinary Young Musicians at St. Paul, 4 p.m. at St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church 1444 Liberty Street SE. Bryanna
West, vocalist. (503) 362-3661 or visit stpaulsoregon.org.
Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com.
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
Lt. Andrew Copeland chats with Keizer resident Naima Yousfi
on her front porch. Copeland had spent time over the past
few months in Yousfi’s neighborhood, helping to work out
differences between neighbors.
KEIZERTIMES/Craig Murphy
At the 7 a.m. Tuesday Keizer Police Department briefings,
various units including patrol and Community Response Unit
get together to go over cases with each other as well as KPD
crime analyst Cara Steele (front right)
we’ve really turbocharged it,
if you will. Just because I put
it in a different gear shouldn’t
cast a bad reflection on Stull
or Adams. The whole industry
has had to catch up or figure
it out. They were a reflection
of their times. What they were
doing was right, proper and
fitting for their times. Now,
times have caught up to the
whole industry.”
A big part of the change
includes less reliance on num-
bers. Whereas the traditional
police model calls for enough
tickets to sustain the depart-
ment, fewer Keizer residents
are being called into court
since Teague took over in Sep-
tember 2013.
“It’s easy to judge your
police department by the
number of arrests you make,”
Teague said. “It’s more diffi-
cult to subscribe to a philoso-
phy that is less quantitative. It
takes some willingness to leave
the comfort of numbers. But
it’s the right thing to do, man.
At the end of the day, a police
department should be con-
cerned about order and disor-
der, the safety in the commu-
nity. We know we can’t arrest
our way out of a problem. We
must find the root problems
of crimes. It’s better for every-
one. We have to unplug from
counting numbers. Not a lot
of places do that; it’s great that
Keizer does.”
For years, the mantra with
the KPD was more officers
were needed to deal with
crime. The department will
soon have a 38th sworn offi-
cer – down from a peak of 41
officers – but efficiency with
the lower resources has be-
come paramount.
“Industrywide we’ve be-
come so reliant on numbers
to justify our existence and
expansion,” Kuhns said. “It’s
difficult to measure outcomes
(with POP) or what crimes
you’ve prevented by using it.
If we get an officer at a house
three nights trying to solve a
problem and we solve it, we’ll
never be able to measure the
future responses we prevent-
ed.”
Teague feels city leaders
have bought into the system,
which could help explain the
credit he gets for the change.
“We’re not focusing on
outputs, we’re focused on out-
comes,” he said. “We’re not
focusing on numbers. The
outcomes we focus on are po-
lice legitimacy and commu-
nity safety. If budget numbers
require (a certain amount of)
work product to determine
how many cops we ought
to have, this system will not
work. This system requires
trust. That trust can be mea-
sured but it’s qualitative, not
quantitative. It comes from the
community, how safe people
feel they are. We have to be
involved in talking with the
community.”
Kuhns said one change
comes in morning briefings.
“In the old school way, a
sergeant would look at an of-
ficer and ask how many arrests
were made and how many
tickets were issued last shift,”
Kuhns said. “The new way
of thinking is, ‘What prob-
lems are you finding? What
are the root causes? How can
we involve Cara to look at the
data?’ It’s a different way to do
things.”
There’s another change
with the morning briefings:
various units meet and Steele
shares any trends worth not-
ing. Sgt. Bob Trump and his
CRU members attend the
meetings on Tuesdays. Offi-
cers coming off night shift and
officers coming onto their day
shift attend, along with Lt. An-
drew Copeland and detectives.
In all, having 20 people in the
room isn’t too uncommon.
“You can’t replace that,
having everyone in the room
at the same time,” Trump said.
“There are a lot of valuable
experiences shared in that
room. We all know about
something happening and are
passing along information. If
we hear about something, we
pass it along.”
Copeland likes the revised
briefings as well.
“The 7 a.m. briefings are
a good time for people to
bring up any concerns,” he
said. “Officers can say here is
the issue and they will pass the
information along so (Steele)
can do a workup on a par-
ticular house. I can take that
on or pass it to CRU. They are
identifying areas of more con-
cern, rather than having patrol
respond to the same call over
and over.”
Officer Carrie Anderson
finds the new way for morn-
ing briefings much better.
“Briefings have become
an information sharing time,”
Anderson said. “Information
sharing is a lot more precise
now, since it’s face to face. It’s
a much more efficient way of
getting information out there.
It’s good coming together as a
group. There is some great in-
formation sharing. It was way
more isolated in the past.”
During a recent Tuesday
meeting, Anderson shared
information about an apart-
ment she responded to the
day before with a number of
stolen items and drugs. CRU
member Darsy Olafson wrote
a search warrant and the prop-
erty was seized that day.
“It was clear I’d need ex-
tra help,” Anderson said. “I
told the sergeant I needed
more hands and we discussed
a plan.”
Often Copeland will de-
cide on the approach.
“Copeland is responsible
for identifying the problem,
assessing the seriousness and
looking at the resources avail-
able,” Kuhns said. “Multiple
guys have a piece of it. Cara
is looking at the numbers and
data. It’s a very holistic ap-
proach, as opposed to the old
school way of let’s just remove
the problem with handcuffs
and hope that fixes things.”
Copeland gave a recent ex-
ample of a female with mental
issues.
“I got several agencies in-
volved with her and we found
her housing,” Copeland said.
“Before, she would have gone
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