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5 Alot of the sustained shooting calls to 9-1-1are the result of disputes between neighbors, he said. My father had strictguidelines for me when I was growing up in Orange County, he said. It was about being respectful toward your neighbors. You didn’t get up on Sunday morning and shoot. You didn’t shoot while church was in session. And if you knew you had a sick neighbor then you would use common sense and respect them. Maybe we can attribute the low numbers to these values coming back, he said. Maybe more neighbors are resolving their complaints one-on-one rather than calling 9-1-1. Mr. Tesoro said that years ago a deputy had asked him to inform the Sheriff’s Office in advance of his target shooting, just so the Office would know in case anyone called in a report. He wondered if that practice could be a reason why there has been a reduction in 9-1-1 sustained shooting calls. Deputy Sykes said that some people still do inform the Sheriff’s Office in advance, but these days that might happen maybe once or twice per month. It helps us out, he said, so that when we get the 9-1-1 call we know what we are responding to. Deputy Sykes added that a report of sustained gunfire is very likely to be a target shooting situation. Less predictable for us, he said, is when we get a 9-1-1call about gunshots in an area. We’ll get to an area and the shooting has stopped. We classify that as “unfounded.” In 2012 we had 262 reports where we could not find the cause of the firing. In 2013, we had 92. In 2014 we had 143. In 2015 we had 200. To date in 2016 we are at 96. It is hard to gauge anything from those numbers because they vary so much, he said. In reply to a question, Deputy Sykes said that he did not have data with him at the time on property damage or personal injury resulting from errant gunfire. When an errant round strikes a vehicle or a residence it is coded differently from when we get a call about sustained gunfire. It might take a lot of work but I can get the data for the Committee. However, in preparation for this meeting he talked with people who have been in the Sheriff’s Office for a number of years. We collectively could recall only one or two instances where someone’s property was damaged in the context of target shooting, he said. I know we have had a few instances over the last couple of years where we had errant rounds from huntingstriking a house, he added.Iwish Forrest Orr were here tonight from the Wildlife Commission to speak to that. Dr. Arvik then recounted an experience that took place about two weeks prior to his applying to serve on this Committee, when he had called 9-1-1 for assistance in