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2 4. GANG ENHANCEMENTS At the last meeting, Councilmember Alvarez asked the City Attorney to look into possible municipal codes regarding graffiti that could aid the District Attorney's office in getting gang enhancements for sentencing. The City Attorney stated that graffiti is already one of those violations that the DA can obtain a gang enhancement on. The only other municipal code that "might" be a possibility is an anti-gang loitering ordinance similar to that which other cities are obtaining, but there was nothing else specific to graffiti. 5. STRIKE FORCE UPDATE Sgt. John Follo presented an update of the Strike Force, which consists of 10 SWAT Team members. He related the enforcement statistics since the inception of the Unit: 1448 total arrests; 84 weapons seized, approximately 95-1/2 Ibs of narcotics seized, 2,342 field interview cards written, 196 gang members documented, 245 parolees sent back to prison, and 12 murder suspects arrested. He also gave some sample cases of the outstanding work the Strike Force is doing. 6. POLICE DEPARTMENT STAFFING Chief Walters reviewed a chart showing the Police Department's full-time employees per 1,000 population. There are currently 386 positions in the Department with a City population of 351,322. He stated that the use of technology in solving cases has helped the Department to be as effective as possible considering that there is approximately the same number of employees now as in 1988 with a population of 274,600. 7. CENSUS TRACT STATS REGARDING ABC LICENSE LOCATIONS The ABC census tract information was received and filed. 8. ANIMAL SERVICES ORDINANCES DCA Laura Rossini reviewed miscellaneous amendments to Chapter 5 of the SAMC concerning various animal service issues. Incentives will be given for spay and neuter and micro chipping since they are not included in the amendments at this time. Committee members will review the amendments and recommend any suggestions of changes at the next Public Safety meeting.