Jacob Frey

You don't hold an entire community accountable.

You hold the person accountable as an individual.

It's just a very basic American value and law enforcement value.

And it's shocking and concerning that we're getting so far straight from that.

I'm certain that's part of it.

With anything law enforcement related, there's always more than one causal factor.

But look, we got 600 cops in the city.

We have fewer officers per capita than virtually any major city in the country.

You know, we're the same sign.

And I would argue I would argue we need them even more just for on a per capita basis.

We are very low.

We hemorrhaged officers following 2020.

And we are at the point where we're netting positive, more and more officers are coming on, but we don't have enough.

Now, juxtapose that 600 number versus the three or 4,000 or whatever it is, ICE agents and border control.

there is a massive imbalance here.

And our police officers have got to do the day-to-day work of being a cop.

And, you know, on top of that, we've got all of these calls coming in and all of these, you know, ice instigated events that are taking place that require some form of our police officers to do even more work on top.

Well, it all depends on the nature of the call, of course.

We respond to calls regarding kidnappings.

And so if somebody says, my son is getting kidnapped, we go.