CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA PACKET

Page 3 of 8 to the suspect or the officers. As committed as Police Department staff are to preventing crime and apprehending those responsible, they are equally committed to addressing quality of life issues. Recently, staff from the Police Department and the Traffic Engineering division received multiple complaints from residents about a significant increase in gravel truck traffic on First Street. Unfortunately, state mapping identified First Street as a designated truck route, superseding an agreement between the City and the gravel company to use alternate routes. Balancing the need for commerce with safety and quality of life concerns, current regulations regarding vehicle weight limits were evaluated, and the City installed signs restricting vehicles over eight tons. This change allowed officers to stop and cite vehicles violating the posted weight limit. In addition, police management met with the management of the gravel truck company to provide training and alternate approved truck routes. Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) v. California Incident-Based Reporting System (CIBRS) Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) was a collective effort by cities, counties, states, tribal, and federal law enforcement to present a nationwide view on crime. It was also used generally by law enforcement agencies to indicate an increase or decrease in crime in their community and is the reporting method used by the Pleasanton Police Department. UCR reporting has been the crime reporting standard for California law enforcement since the 1930s. In the early 1980s, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) introduced the National Incident- Based Reporting System (NIBRS). As of May 2024, all 50 states and the District of Columbia were certified to use NIBRS, and the FBI will now no longer accept UCR summary-based reporting. In recent years, the California Department of Justice expanded the data elements of NIBRS to create the California Incident-Based Reporting System (CIBRS) to collect and report more specific information than NIBRS. With this, in December 2024, the City will transition to a new Computer Aided Dispatch and Records Management System and, with it, CIBRS data collection and reporting. The key difference between CIBRS and UCR is eliminating the hierarchy rule and single incident reporting. Under the UCR hierarchy rule, only the single most serious offense is reported, regardless of whether other offenses occurred during the same incident. In contrast, CIBRS will collect up to 10 of the reportable offenses when they occur in the same incident, effectively reporting crime more accurately. In addition, using UCR single incident reporting, only one crime is reported for each incident, regardless of the number of victims. In contrast, using CIBRS, a separate crime is reported for each victim. Effectively, CIBRS incident reporting is more detailed than the traditional UCR standards, which can lead to post-CIBRS misinterpretation of crime data as an increase in crime rather than a by-product of changes in data reporting rules. The Police Department’s first biannual report of 2025 will contain the final comparison of year- to-year crime data in the UCR format. All crime data collected and information provided after January 1, 2025, will be reported using the CIBRS method. Alternate Response Unit In 2023, the Alternate Response Unit (ARU) reached full staffing. However, due to a police department staffing shortage, the unit was partially disbanded in early 2024 during which the unit operated with one officer and a clinician team for approximately six months. As Page 89 of 126