Well, it's a response to the community. Public safety is my highest priority, and we're making such improvements across Houston with recruitment of cadets for HPD. We've increased HPD by 800 successful graduates, and our force is 5,400, the highest in history. Same as fire, 400 additional firefighters. This will address some of the overtime concerns of some of my colleagues. (04:37–04:47)
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