You put out some numbers a minute ago while we were talking, but are there specific areas where you think there's room to cut or to change the budget? You know, I have spoken about, as it pertains to headcount, sustaining the number of officers that we have on the NYPD and trying to fight this crisis of retention that we're seeing. And I appreciated. I think it was John hall in Vital City who wrote a piece around interrogating this question of headcount and the relationship to crime from 2001, 2011 and actually said that our proposal was one that was sound. (29:13–29:26)
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