And what's important to understand with the Viper program is it had two parts. One was increased funding for law enforcement in LA and deal with gang activities. We had seen a spike in our highest in the state of California. Imagine Mercedes, California, the highest murder rate. There may be 2345 of those gang members out of 100 that are very dangerous people, the kind of people that we probably don't want on the street. (05:04–05:15)
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