And by the way, to give a sense of how much these changes matter, I'm going to give you two stats to wrap up with. The justice minister told me They've had over 10,000 applications for people who want to be police officers. Suddenly people are eager to be police officers because it's making a difference, because they're making their community safe. Previously, when the gangs were running the country, they had in one year over 300 police officers murdered. (35:10–35:17)
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