i outfitted the offiers in oakland.n i walked into baltimore when i walked in there, i had a focus of bringing body cameras online. the issue was, i needed to build a credibility within the organization to bring those forward. since day one, i have been a proponent of cameras. we did it in oakland. what came out of that was a reduction of citizen complaints in oakland. there were two reasons why i brought cameras to oakland. one was that i saw that the police department had a large number of complaints. the clip that you showed earlier said that the police department in 1974 was about 750 officers. in 2009, there were 850 officers, so very little growth. of those police officers, they were pretty close to about 3000 complaints. that was an outrageous number. when i started looking at the numbers and reading the complaints, i could see that you had some misconduct by officers, but more so, you had people filing complaints that led to lawsuits and payoffs. in an impoverished city, people were using this process to file la