so velasco said it well. defunding the police is a bad term. it's a horrible term.sounds like you want to get rid of them, but in reality, it's a reallocation. i'm with our current chief. he has some really good ideas about how to use funding for mental health and domestic violence in particular, and i think those are two areas absolutely that we could have specialists that don't need to be police. that being said, i am a metric-driven individual. i come from the business side, and i believe firmly if we are going to allocate funds into just about anything, you track what occurs, and then, you make decisions about how successful it is, and if it doesn't meet the metrics you put in place and the goals you put in place, you take that money back, and you put it to better use. thank you. >> thank you, kenneth. and next will be stephen. >> i want to be very, very cautious about replacing police officers by mental health workers to deal with people with mental health crisis because human nature is very, very unpredictable. when you're high on drugs, even more so, and i ha

so velasco said it well. defunding the police is a bad term. it's a horrible term. it sounds like you want to get rid of them, but in reality, it's a reallocation. i'm with our current chief. he has some really good ideas about how to use funding for mental health and domestic violence in particular, and i think those are two areas absolutely that we could have specialists that don't need to be police. that being said, i am a metric-driven individual. i come from the business side, and i believe firmly if we are going to allocate funds into just about anything, you track what occurs, and then, you make decisions about how successful it is, and if it doesn't meet the metrics you put in place and the goals you put in place, you take that money back, and you put it to better use. thank you. >> thank you, kenneth. and next will be stephen. >> i want to be very, very cautious about replacing police officers by mental health workers to deal with people with mental health crisis because human nature is very, very unpredictable. when you're high on drugs, even more so, and