Racial Equity Impact Analysis (REIA)

The Racial Equity Impact Analysis helps the City consider racial equity outcomes when shaping policies, practices, programs and budgets.

Grant application to the Minnesota Department of Commerce for Auto Theft Prevention - REIA

Section 1: Background

Does this impact one of the City's Goal Areas

Policy Goals

Operational Goals

Public Safety	Yes
Housing	No
Economic Development	No
Public Services	No
Environmental Justice	No
Built Environment & Transportation	No
Public Health	No
Arts & Culture	No

Workforce	Yes
Spending	Yes
Data	No
Community Engagement	No

Describe the impact on selected goal areas.

The Minneapolis Auto Theft Prevention grant application will permit the contintuation of its long-standding auto theft prevention program that is effective in preventing vehicle thefts and in arresting and prosecution perpetrators.

Who participated in completing this analysis?

Sgt. Lance duPaul, Minneapolis Auto Theft Bait Vehicle Program coordinator and Wendy Guck

Section 2: Data

LIST THE SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIES THAT WILL BE IMPACTED AND THE RACIAL DEMOGRAPHICS OF CONSTITUENTS IN THOSE AREAS:

The City of Minneapolis, and as fiscal agent to other law enforcement agencies for the Minnesota Auto Theft Board.

What does available data tell you about how constituents from BIPOC communities currently relate to the desired outcome as compared to white constituents?

The Auto Theft Prevention Unit (ATPU), primary function is to coordinate the deployment/pickup of MPD’s bait vehicle fleet, as well as maintaining the fleet. The bait vehicle deployment locations are based on the week priors MSTAT data for auto thefts. Typically, there is at least one bait vehicle deployed in each of the cities five precincts weekly. ATPU also conducts all investigations involving bait vehicle thefts and assists with other auto theft investigations as needed. ATPU also searches for and recovers stolen vehicles in the city based on MSTAT data of recovery hot spots and personal knowledge on recovery areas. The number of car-jackings increased in 2020 and will be a continued focus of the Police Auto Theft Prevention program.

In 2020 there were 3,905 auto thefts in the entire city of Minneapolis, with 364 occurring in the 1st Pct, 605 occurring in the 2nd Pct, 1,386 occurring in the 3rd Pct, 831 occurring in 4th Pct and 714 in the 5th Pct, and 5 undefined. In 2020 the ATPU recovered 147 stolen vehicles.

In 2020 there were 4203 stolen vehicles recovered in Minneapolis, with 345 recovered in 1st Pct, 496 in the 2nd Pct, 1576 in the 3rd Pct, 1093 in the 4th Pct, 693 in the 5th Pct. In 2019 there were 2224 stolen vehicles recovered. 249 in the 1st Pct, 219 in the 2nd Pct, 784 in the 3rd Pct, 642 in the 4th Pct, and 330 in the 5th Pct.

Auto Theft increased by 35.9% from 20190 to 2020, and the number of vehicles recovered Minneapolis stolens and from other city and state jurisdictions increased by 89% during this period. Over the two years, the distribution of vehicle thefts by Precinct are: 1st Pct, 10.9%; 2nd Pct, 14.7%; 3rd Pct, 34.8%; 4th Pct, 21.4%; and 5th Pct, 18%. Recovered vehicles by precinct are: 1st Pct, 9.2%; 2nd Pct, 11.1%; 3rd Pct, 36.7%; 4th Pct, 27%; and 5th Pct, 15.9%.

What data is unavailable or missing? How can you obtain additional data?

Ethnicity of Minneapolis auto theft victims and subjects arrested are not readily unavailable, and victim and suspect information is unavilable for vehicles recoverd.

Section 3: Community Engagement

Using the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Public Participation Spectrum, which participation strategy(s) was used when engaging those who would be most impacted?

Inform	Yes
Consult	No
Involve	No
Collaborate	No
Empower	No

Describe the Engagement and what have you learned?

All constituents throughout the city are concerned about auto theft and car-jackings and enforcement efforts will be addressed by temporal geographic trends weekly in each precinct.

Section 4: Analysis

How does the outcome for this ordinance, amendment, or policy help the city achieve Racial Equity?

Auto Theft enforcement efforts are data-driven based on offense activity and distributed throughout each precinct.

Section 5: Evaluation

How will impacts be measured? What are the success indicators and process benchmarks?

Data will continue to be tracked on the location of vehicle thefts and recoveries.

How will those who are impacted be informed of progress over time?

Data will be available to Police Administration and Precinct Inspectors to share with the community through all avenues of community engagement.

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