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They might be public health.

Now you're keeping the cops involved.

Right.

Right?

You're not saying we're going to defund you.

We don't need you.

We do need you.

You play a vital role in our society.

maybe that'll have to be incorporated in drips and drabs and carefully into training, right?

But I got an example for you.

I got an example for you.

I think it's really important.

It's from where I come, right?

In Winthrop, Massachusetts, Winthrop, Massachusetts, 10 years ago,

When I was a patrol officer and I kept coming in seeing public health issues in the police logs and police incidents, public health issue, mental health challenge, a person not having access to their psychiatrist running out of their medicine, overdose save, overdose loss tragically, over and over and over again.

And I went and talked to the police chief.

I said – his name is Terrence Delahunty.

I said, chief –

On patrol when I'm in, will you let me make a pile of work?

Let's call it cases to investigate because I think I have a detective fetish.