president thomas mazzucco was also agreed to build the bridge between the public and the mental health stakeholders. it was great to see the mental- health community come together and agree we need this reform. supervisor mirkarimi: leading up to that, a number of us elected expressed concern about what we heard a couple of months ago about the elimination, series reduction of mental health training for the primary responders of the police department, related to these in gauging the people with mental health needs. when they are confronted with someone with a mental health crisis. so you put the police in a defensive position for those few months. they certainly have to defend their position to say why they wanted to reduce the services. but the hearing itself turned it around a little bit. they realized you are also speaking of -- the police department realized the things you are speaking of now. it forged this in a partisan direction, and it is a considerable shift. >> your analysis of the way the conversation shifted is insightful. sitting on the police commission, having multiple d