san jose police department provides training, equipment, scholarships, to underprivileged students in san jose. they've--we have board members from throughout the community that support the san jose police foundationhe san jose police department. damian: and so, chief, talk about the importance of doing this extra work, going the extra mile, if you will, to be a supporting arm of the san jose police department. scott: members of the community may not fully understand that the department has a limited budget. most of their funds go to the cost of personnel, and they have limited amounts of money for equipment, training, supplies, and investing in those discretionary issues or items that the department needs, so the police foundation, formed 16 years ago, with a board of about 15 community members, now makes decisions to fund, as ted said, equipment such as breaching tools for high-risk incidents, portable stretchers in mass shooting incidents, motorcycle gear for officers, and new technology for the burglary unit. they just bought the most recent k-9 for the police department, and then have invested in morale and the well-being of officers, including sending officers to training and underwriting th

." ♪♪♪ damian: and we begin today with the good work of the san jose police foundation with me on "comunidadalle." i'm honored to have ted trujillo, who's a retired police officer; and also a former police chief in los gatos, scott seaman also was an officer in san jose. he joins us on our show. welcome, gentlemen, to the show. ted trujillo: thank you. scott seaman: damian, thank you. great to be with you. damian: thank you. ted, you're on the smart side of the trujillo family. is that my understanding on how this all works out? ted: yeah, i think so. i think you're right about that.