city workers with 6000 on the civil side. 4000 in public safety. 2700 as police, 1100 as firemen. 's. as firefighters and emt two thirds of the budget is public safety. we met with the public safety unionsor several reasons. some of our initial metrics, 56 minutes response times for police, were down to 12. they were good metrics for any city, let alone detroit. our initial view was, we have to focus on the basics. let's get government running as it should, deal with public safety. focus on delivery to citizens. the other stuff that had happened in the past, we were not going to spend time looking at that. my term was 18 months. the clock started ticking from day one. my team and i had to get focused and move quickly. brian: you left jones day law firm to do this. kevyn: resigned from the firm, totally separated from the firm, and worked exclusively as emergency manager for detroit. brian: your back to the firm now? kevyn: back to the firm now, yes. brian: here is a stumble -- august 2013. wxyz.o [video clip] >> these are comments the emergency manager made that he may be regretting for the next year and a half he will be the emergency manager in detroit. look at what he says about the