Yeah, we kind of already talked about all of the sort of root cause for the crime spikes. One of the things that when The sheriff's department is told by the county supervisor, your budget is x. And, oh, by the way, that's 80% of what it was last year. You know, it's 60% of what it was four years ago. The sheriff's department, the county sheriff, and then the station sheriff's, they have to make decisions that they don't want to have to make, but they have to. (1:41:49–1:41:59)
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