When you do an analysis with other countries and cities, to have that volume of people and still maintaining a level of order and dealing with the mental health issue that we saw in our system, Taking 8,500 people off the system, that's dealing with mental health issues. Issues. And so what the commissioner is doing, she's really balancing out our manpower, particularly during the summer months. (23:48–23:53)
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