You can see. You should see some of the pictures back then. It was crazy. And so understand, that's why civic is important. Because when you see some, like right now, When I became mayor, we were having encampments all over. People living in cardboard boxes and tents on the side of highways. And when we came in, we said, listen, people are not living that way. January and February of 2022, I went into the streets to talk to people that lived in these encampments, saw human waste, drug power fanatics, stale food, dyslexia, bipolar, schizophrenic. (21:22–21:30)
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