slaught slaught thank you. -- commissioner slaughter: thank you. thank you for your comments. thank you to the moms. i have small achildren. i hear amoms speak, and i -- i hear moms speak and i start to cry. dr. due pobt -- dr. dupont you talked about the way the model has changed. i wonder if you could tell us how flex flexibility is important, if it is, to you in how it is implemented in a particular city, and how the city has to analyze what they do . we >> we do see basics ever what we do need to do there. i think it is a critical element. the specialization of the officer, the ability of the officer to be on the scene to respond is important. you think you-all have different needs. i would think homeless emphasis would be one you woo want to take a more intense look at and one we are doing ourselves in memphis. it would be critical to constantly change the model. >> seeing how you implemented in memphis and how it has been implemented in other cities around the country, what are two or three things that -- key steps for us if we're going to mention this model and endorse

slaught slaught -- commissioner slaughter: and you provided great historical information going back from 1993 to 2010, and it shows in those -- those charts really show how the open-closed, pending-sustained, have varied over the years. i notice you go back some years where the o.c.c. prior to -- was closing more than 1,200 cases. i think it would be valuable for us to have an understanding, a little bit more of a historical understanding of the staffing situation, too. it seems to me that you are under-staffed. i wouldn't want to later on have you be -- go in the mayor's office or the board of supervisors and said, well, back in such and such a year when you cleared this many cases, you had the same staffing levels. so i think it -- providing the case load is incredibly valuable information. also at the same time giving a comparison on the staffing would be valuable to those folks. i would suspect that the staffing situation was vastly different and there were probably a lot more resources when they were clearing a lot more cases. i guess i would ask you to what aextent there are fewer