1. Social Harm

2. Why are we here? Destruction Injury Death Personal Tragedy Heartache
Economic Loss

3. The existing state of affairs
Why are we here?
Status Quo
The existing state of affairs

4. How Did We Get Here?
1974
1985
2017

5. Why are we here? Insanity Defined by Albert Einstein
Doing the same thing the same way
Expecting different results
Texas is trying a new idea
The Regional Approach
Change Mind Set
Change Behavior

6. Why are we here?
Three “E’s” of Traffic Safety

7. Law Enforcement effects all 3 E’s
Engineering
Crash Reporting
Purpose for investigating crashes
Factors Contributing
Accuracy of the reporting
Education
Voluntary Compliance
Lead by example
Tell them why
Show them examples
Enforcement
For those can’t be educate

8. Why are we here? Agency focuses on preventing crime
No time for traffic enforcement
Constituents do not support traffic enforcement
Highway Patrol responsibility
Officers do not want to work Traffic

9. Why are we here?
DDACTS
Data Driven Approach to Crime and Traffic Safety
Stop Cars / Catch crooks
Traffic and crime hotspots are generally the same
Solve both problems

10. Why are we here? Existing problem
The Region
Ignoring the problem
The Agencies do not have the resources
Do not have the funding
Unable to dedicate resources
Crime is agencies main priority

11. Traffic Enforcement is not real police work

12. William Lester Suff
Ted Bundy
Randy Kraft
Timothy McVeigh
Robert Gibson

13. Social Harm

14. Criminal acts
SOCIAL HARM
Common Denominator
Traffic crashes

15.                          
Criminal acts cost
American's
an estimated
$870
billion per year

16. Motor vehicles crashes
Cost Americans 
$871 billion a year
$598.5 billion

17. No Fear
No Panic

18. 1965 Polio was cured 49,000 Killed in Traffic Crashes
Something must be done
Highway safety act signed

19. NHTSA FARS Data 2016
37,461 people were killed on U.S. roads, meaning 2016 was the deadliest driving year since 2008."

20. 1Injury cause by vehicle crash
every 57 seconds
TEXAS
1Injury cause by vehicle crash
every 1 min 58 seconds
1Fatal Car Crash
every 2hrs and 20 mins

21. State of Texas
November 7, 2000
End the streak!

22. Traffic Law vs Criminal Law
Very Little Grey area
Enforcement and Courts have little discretion
Convictions come with consequences
Traffic Law
Societal suggestions
Enormous discretion from enforcement and courts
Convictions have little consequences beyond monetary

23. Societal view of Criminal
Murderer
Burglar
Drug Offenses
Sexual Crimes
Criminal

24. Societal view of Traffic Law Violator
Speeder
Run Stop Sign or Red Light
Refuse to wear safety belt
Distracted driver
Intoxicated driver
Citizen

25. Conditioning

26. Insanity Defined
Doing things the same way
Expecting different results

27. Tolerance
Conditioning

28. Social detachment

29. Six Pillars of 21st Century Policing Model
Building Trust and Legitimacy
Policy and Oversight
Technology and Social Media
Community Policing and Crime Reduction
Training and Education
Officer Wellness and Safety 

30. Social Harm
Simple solution?

31. Changing the focus Reduce social harm not write tickets
Eliminate non-data-driven activity
Enforcement happens where it is needed most
Tickets are written at LEO’s discretion or according to LEA policy
Performance measures
An overall average of 2.5 car stops per hour
Budgets for overtime developed from Crash Data
Enforcement Zones
Comparison of grant-year crashes with rolling 3 year average

32. Objectives Life saving initiative preventing traffic crash death
Aggressive enforcement as crime deterrent
Make YOUR community safer
High Visibility Enforcement
Reduce and ultimately prevent social harm

33. S.T.E.P. Strategic Traffic Enforcement Plan
FY-2019

34. Strategic Historically the selective approach has not been effective
Selecting locations where violations are plentiful
Has not provided significant reduction in social harm
Using the DDACTS model
Map out problem areas
Deploy resources to that area

35. Traffic Vehicles move society More social harm caused through traffic
War
Terrorism
Crime

36. Enforcement An active patrol unit is a social harm deterrent
The more active the unit the more effective

37. Plan Not a cult movement Not another government program
Focuses on the need of your community
Consider the Three E’s of traffic safety

38. Passionate ?