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I've never been a detective, but I wanted to investigate things too.

He's like, then what are you going to do with that pile?

I said, I'm going to follow up in police uniform, patrol car.

I'm going to go knock on a door and have a conversation with somebody.

See what they really need to prevent that 911 call for service.

He's on record saying he thought I was going to bang my head up against the wall.

He's like, there's no one's going to talk to this kid in full uniform.

But he was so excited I had to let him try.

Two, three weeks later, I come back.

I said, Chief, I got a problem.

People are inviting me into their house, telling me to sit down, calling somebody down who's telling me that they were looking for cocaine, got fentanyl.

We have a good problem.

I got to connect these people to their appropriate help.

You know what he said to me?

He said, connect them to the public health department.

There's a woman in there.

Her name is Meredith Hurley.

And she's brought in people with lived and living experience with challenges related to intoxicating substances who are open about it to help with the overdose crisis.

Bang.

Public safety connected with public health.