and i speak of the gae community relations group under michelle gene operate by chuck lambert, gary buckner, and kate joshua to name the four most egregious offenders in that unit. finally i want to make the point when we discuss the specials, there's an assumption that they are somehow supplementary to the police. and that they actually continue to the safety and the welfare of the citizens. i have another -- an alternative narrative as the president would say that may explain why some folks like ms. grogan want them around so badly. in certain neighborhoods in this city people don't like the laws that we have. they want to establish an extra legal system where people can walk around with leashless dogs and walk around naked and walk around selling drugs, walk around whoring and doing all sorts of illegal nonsense. these patrol specials allow these community groups and certain neighborhoods to insulate themselves from the actual law and create an alternative set of laws that they alone know, they alone understand, they alone enforce. and they alone get to live under. the rest of us are jus