Dupont Public Safety: RE: MPD Re-Districting Meeting Thursday Night

Anyone go to the meeting? If so, did you hear any better rationalizations than in the attached? Proposed map is also in the attached. It splits the 17^th Street corridor north to south, the ward, and several ANC SMDs into different districts.

I couldn’t make the meeting. Below are my talking points:

Move of PSA 306 to PSA 208 (3D to 2D) - went well

We like the present Ward, ANC, PSA cohesion

Concerns:

Dupont used to be have parts of 5 PSAs

Proposed border change affects 7 ANC SMDs

We're concerned about MPD/citizen communication going forward

No one wants to go back to 3D

Radio bandwidth was reason to move us to 2D

Want to hear the rationalization:

Policing

208 too big?

No more Super PSAs?

2D overburdened?

Response time?

Political

U Street pressures?

Econ Dev?

Effects:

Does the proposal do anything to solve the 1400 Q structural Borderstan issue?

Proposal cuts 17th Street district in half

If need to shrink 208, consider

Cut it residential and business as last proposed

Move Kalorama-Sheridan

Why not split but keep new PSA in 2D

The 2D meeting (we are presently all in 2D) to discuss proposed changes will be June 22.

Rob Halligan
202 319 1313

From: Rob Halligan [mailto:Rob@HalliganProjects.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 8:56 AM
To: DupontForum (DupontForum@yahoogroups.com)
Subject: MPD Re-Districting Meeting Thursday Night

MPD will propose moving the policing borders Thursday night at the meeting below. From what I can surmise, MPD wants to move everything east of 18^th and north of Q to the 3^rd District. All of Dupont is now part of the 2^nd District. That splits 17^th Street.

MPD and the community worked to together very successfully when changing the borders about 7 years ago, and I have no reason to believe can’t work together to make everybody happy on this re-districting effort. I’ll have more info later today on the proposal and its rationalizations. The 2D meeting to discuss changes will be June 22.

Rob Halligan
HalliganProjects.com
202 319 1313
(Landline - no texting. Forwards to cell.)

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From: cac_3d <cac_3d@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:42 PM
Subject: [U Street News] Third District CAC SPECIAL MEETING
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SPECIAL MEETING

POLICE DISTRICTS REALIGNMENT

WHEN: Thursday, June 9, 2011

WHERE: 3^rd District Headquarters - 1620 V Street, NW

TIME: 7:00 p.m.

I. Call to Order – StanleyJ. Mayes, Chairman,
Third District Citizens Advisory Council

II. Commander'sReport – Jacob Kishter, Commander

Third District MPD

III. Guest Speaker– Chief Cathy Lanier

Metropolitan Police Department

Chief Lanier will "discuss plans for realigning the Third District"