So I want to ask about the budget. What do you see the size of the police department? Well, so we're, we're actually facing a staffing crisis at the PD. So right now The budgeted head count is 35,000 [officers], but today we only have 33,500. 33, five and 4,000 officers are going to hit their 20 years when they can retire this year because 2005 was a number of a lot of hire. (18:16–18:19)
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Asserts that the current number of officers is 33,500, below the budgeted headcount of 35,000.
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