 Good evening, everyone. Welcome to another District 6 listening circle. I'm Council Member Jared Williams, and I'm super grateful to have such an amazing turnout like we do tonight. It goes without saying that we're all here because we value the importance of having strong neighborhoods and strong neighborhoods or safe neighborhoods. And that is the occasion while we're here to talk about what does that mean here in District 6. I've been particularly concerned, as many of you, particularly with gun violence that has happened within the district over the past year, plus, and particularly been concerned with gun violence as it relates to our teenagers as well. As a counselor, I've been to one too many funerals of our young youth who were filled with so much potential and their life cut too short. And for me, that's not OK, and that's something that I lose sleep over. Today is really an important opportunity as all of our listening circles to identify issues that neighborhoods are affected with and then bring our city departments who can help brainstorm and create solutions, meaningful solutions that address those issues. And that's the purpose of tonight. That's the purpose of our listening circles. And so thank you all for being here today. I'm going to give a quick update from a council perspective, and then I'll introduce Chief Noakes, and then he'll introduce the rest of our staff. I wanted, first of all, to say thanks to our fourth police for being here tonight. Thank you all for your service to our city. Thank you, Chief Commander Hudson, your command team, and also our MPOs and some of our patrol staff, I think, is here as well. Thank you all for what you all do for the city and for District 6 and for being here tonight. We've been really focused, again, on what does it mean to build strong neighborhoods and from a safety perspective. We understand that, short term, there are things that we have to do in partnership with our PD to ensure that our neighborhoods are safe. And I've been really pleased and honored to be able to work alongside Chief Noakes and his staff. Safety is of the utmost importance to them. And I know Chief Noakes lose sleep and has a couple gray hairs. I'm trying to. Some of y'all got that. And that's definitely got gray hairs. But this work is really important to him and his team. Needless to say, they sacrifice time and so much more in this work. So it's been an honor to work with him on some of those short term solutions that you'll hear about today. Also, from a council perspective, we've been doing things really related to keeping our neighborhoods safe with respects to finding opportunities for our youth to have spaces to grow and thrive. I'm really pleased to say that our team was able to put forward a suggestion to waive the fee for youth in the city of Fort Worth not to have to go to communities or not to have to pay to go to community centers. And my colleagues saw the importance of that as well. And so this past Tuesday, we were able to vote to ensure that no child will ever have to pay an admission fee to be in a safe space like community centers. And so yeah, that's worth a clap. I'd like to also shout out my district director, Kendall. I know he has an old soul. And he seems like he's 35, but he's 19. And we had a conversation where I was like, can the word of kids in Southwest Fort Worth go to hang out? And he said, well, there are not too many places for us. And after Tuesday, we have a few more places and a few more barriers to keep kids off the streets and in positive spaces. So I understand that there is short term solutions that we all have to make to really address safety immediately. And then there's also long term things that we need to think about and investments that we need to make. And that's why we're focused particularly on the ultimacy in my court corridor. We've submitted plans for a reinvestment zone because we recognize that violent crime and blight is a symptom of a greater issue of economic despair and not enough opportunity. And so we're kicking off a working group in the next week or so. I think it's December 16th of neighborhood residents, city staff, PD, fire, our economic development team to talk about what does it mean to create another life or ultimate some of the cart that includes developing our small businesses, leverage and opportunities like our upcoming bond, which we'll have meetings in the future about to connect the parks, the wonderful parks in Wedgewood with things like security lighting, things like trails, and things like just beautiful spaces and places in terms of infrastructure and parks to continue to serve and create that vision of having a vibrant economic center again on McCartney and ultimacy. So again, we recognize that there are immediate things that we need to solve. And also there's long term investments that we need to make. And most importantly, we can't make any of those solutions without you at the table. And so I value opportunities like this because it's opportunities for us to ask you and the residents of Fort Worth to help us in really understanding what does it mean to have safe neighborhoods here in District 6. And also, how do we roll up our sleeves? Stitches or not? I have six stitches if y'all are looking at that, right? Sidebar real quick. I had five stitches on Friday night. I asked them, could they put a six one in? Because I love District 6 so much. So new list to say, though, all of us are here for one reason because we're willing to roll up our sleeves. We have an amazing community, an amazing district, and an amazing city. And definitely there's work to do, and that's why we're all here. So without further ado, I'm going to introduce Chief Notes. Before I do, I have one housekeeping rule for all of the presenters tonight. When you're coming to speak to the mic, I've been told that you can't take the mic off the microphone because they're positioned just right. We have an audience that will be tuned in. This conversation tonight will be recorded. And so for your friends and neighbors and family who weren't able to attend tonight, we'll be emailing the link to this video and also we'll be posting on our social media at Jer Williams TX on all platforms. So without further ado, you'll be hearing from our staff. And then we'll open the floor up to hear more from you about issues that you've been experiencing. I've been giving feedback on how we can make some of the solutions that we're presenting to you stronger and better and be meaningful for you, your family, and your neighborhood. So without any further ado, please help me give a warm welcome to our Chief of Police, Chief Nail Nelkes. Thank you. You know, sometimes when we come to these events and a conversation we had earlier today, was we wondered, will we have more officers or more citizens to show up? It is nice to see that we're outnumbered tonight. This is actually a really good thing. I'm glad to see the turnout we have. Thank you for being out here. We always value any input we get from the citizens, even if just one shows up. When you show up like this, it means a lot to us to be able to hear your concerns and be able to talk to you about the things we need to do to make your community the way it needs to be. Briefly, my vision, our vision, our mission is to make sure our department is as safe, it's as healthy, and it's as resilient as it can be to make sure your communities are safe, healthy, and resilient as well. What that means, number one, like you said, Councilmember, and thank you for not only setting this up but for inviting us, is safety. If you don't feel safe, if you're not safe in your own neighborhood, then nothing else we do matters. And I'm going to tell you, you've got a team back here not only have the brains to get the job done, they got the heart to do it right, and they do it every single day for you. Not in day, they're out there serving you and doing some amazing things in the community. Violent crime, that's the biggest thing going on in the nation right now. In my opinion, the biggest thing going on in Fort Worth gives, again, safety's number one. There was an article recently in CNN that said 63 of the 66 largest jurisdictions in the entire country were all seeing a spike in violent crime. This isn't just a local issue, this is a national issue. And there are all kinds of people, a whole lot smarter than me, trying to figure out why that's happening. I say there's a lot of things contributing to it. A lot of guns out there, we are confiscating scary weapons. These aren't some cheap pawn shop gun, these are high grade, quality, high capacity guns. And every day we're taking them off the street because of the work people like this are doing every single day. You know, there's a lot of people talking about the pandemic, the economic downturn, all kinds of things that are going on that could contribute to it. But what is important to us, what I believe is important to you is not what's going on or where else in the country it's what's going on in Fort Worth and specifically in your neighborhoods. That's number one for us too. We've actually had a push through the summer, an initiative called Four Safe, where we were going out in communities where we were seeing violent crime. The things we were doing, things differently that we didn't, we had done it sometimes in the past. There were times in the past where we'd go into neighborhoods, we'd send as many officers as we could, we'd pull over everybody we could, we'd arrest everybody we could, there's problems here, we're gonna fix it. Well, there are people in those communities that need to be arrested. There are people in the community that need to be taken out. Violent predators are causing damage in your neighborhoods. But the problem is when you take a blanket approach, a lot of the people you're negatively impacting are the very people you're trying to serve. We're taking a surgical approach to this using all kinds of data, intelligence, technology, cameras, officers in plain clothes under cover. We're going after the people who are causing the problems. We're going after people who have guns, people who are selling drugs, people who have guns and are selling drugs. Going after people around here that are driving like idiots that are trying to bring the car clubs into our neighborhoods. I won't say exactly what the social media post said. There was one group going to different places throughout the Metroplex and they said, oh yeah, but don't go to Fort Worth. I'll change up so they don't mess around. The last time they came, we showed up in force. We towed cars, we took people to jail. We took action before they were able to cause damage. Does that mean we stopped every person that could speed in Fort Worth? No, but we're doing our best. What our promise is to you is we're gonna continue doing everything we can to positively affect violent crime and again, specifically gun crime and that retaliatory, cyclical gun violence you see between warring groups sometimes. We're not gonna tolerate it. We also understand that there's a lot of the areas where you see these problems are areas with blight, areas that have been neglected, areas that maybe don't have the resources other sides of town have where you don't see the violent crime. So what we're also doing is partnering with other organizations, other agencies that can help with community capacity development. If you have a safe, healthy, and resilient community, guess what it's taking care of itself? Is getting things done because the people there have the resources they need. One example, we're partnering with UNT Health Science Center. They are through a grant purchasing a mobile clinic that they're gonna wrap with Ford PD and Fort Worth Fire Department logos all over it for free for us. It's not costing the taxpayers anything and we're taking that mobile clinic, whether it's an eye clinic, dental clinic, maybe kids need physicals for school, we're gonna go out in the community and help. Something we can't offer on our own, but we're partnering with the people who can't. And please know we're getting out of our silos. You have some experts with that back here that know how to connect with the community, that know that you can't fix this alone. We can't fix this alone. But if all of us come together, get on the same page and work to get things done, I guarantee you we make a difference. Tonight's a listening session, so I'm gonna stop talking. But I do want to introduce some of the staff up here and then I would like this group back here to introduce themselves and let you know where it is they work. We've got some amazing people back here. Hopefully some of you know them. If not, I think you'll have a chance to get to know them. They do incredible things there, what makes the department run. But first of all, I wanna recognize one of the assistant chiefs down on the end, Rob Aldridge. He's also my stunt double. Your deputy chief, Greg Weathers. And then we have commander Roy Hudson. All three work here for you. And now putting all of you on the spot, could y'all please come up? I want them to get to know you. And the mics have to stay, but please step back. I can't move it, ha ha. Why don't you start, Sarge? All right. My name's Bobby McCarthy. I'm the John District NPL Sergeant over here. South Division has two districts, Ida and John. I'm sorry. Yeah, you go through them. Okay, I think I'm done. All right. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm gonna go back. My name's Bobby McCarthy. I'm the John District Sergeant out here in South Division. I have nine officers that work with me, that work with the community, that work with the citizens out in the area, the business. We work with just about anything, everybody we can work with. And we do a lot of different stuff too. I'm gonna let them introduce themselves over here. Go ahead. Well, yeah, I don't know, I'm Officer Tenorio. I'm in John 19's beat. I've been here for 14 years, about seven or eight years as an NPO. My border is on McCart, Risinger, Crowley Road. The majority of mine is residential areas, is what I deal with, so. Hello, my name is Miguel Vargas. I'm one of the NPO's, I've been here since 01. And the area that I cover is John 14's beat, and that's the Wedgewood area. You guys familiar with Wedgewood? It's really big, but it's Granbury to Woodway, 20 to Alta Mesa. So, I like working out here. I'm Officer Hayes. I've been with the department for about four years now. My beat is John 18. I started at Columbus Trail in McCart, then go as far south as 1187, and then I go across to, I always say Bimber, because it never stops, it seems. So. I'm about to cry right now. My name is Shanae Lopez, and I am on loan currently with Officer Hayes working in John 18 as well. I'm Officer Kite. Myself and Tamelia, we're kind of the outcast here. We're way far east from where we're at here. Mine's out of 19, so you got two different districts, John District and Ida District. Ida 19 still covers part of the city council member's area, as the reason we're up here. We go all the way out to 35, so I'm at around Garden Acres all the way to Burleson. So I realize that's a pretty good ways away from here, but you know what, I got somebody that's from over there. So, since we still come as part of his, we came to this, but we still work for everybody if anybody has anything. I'm Officer Carol, and I have Ida 18. My south boundary is Sycamore School Road, and like you said, I go out to like McPherson Garden Acres area. Hello, I'm Juan Frias. I'm the supervisor for Ida District. And like you said, Ida 18, 19 are the only two districts under the councilman's area, but we also have a lot of Chris Nettles and Councilwoman Beck. We have a couple of beats there, but most of Ida's kind of, I always call it the old south side. I'm from the La Grande Plaza area, kind of born and raised that area, but we've got Highland Hills, OD Wyatt area, all the way into, we have a little bit of Miller and Wichita area, Alta Mesa 35. Most of the 35 corridor is Ida District. But together, like I said, we all work together. We always jump on John's side and they come help us out too. So reach out to us if you need anything. Thank you. I'm Rod Gilbert. I've got the Walmart area. So that generates enough offense reports for the rest of the beat. It's a, you know what? So I've got John 17 extends north of Sycamore School Road, east of the railroad tracks, northern boundaries, Alta Mesa, and then I follow Columbus Trail and West Cleveland. That completes my area. Good evening, I'm Officer Brandon Morris. I have John 16 beat, which is the beat we're in right now. My northern border is Alta Mesa, southern border is Columbus Trail. I got West Cleveland and all the way to the Toaway. How y'all doing? My name is Officer Nash. I've been here 15 years. My beat is John 15's beat, which goes from I-20 coming down to McCartt. From McCartt, I cut across automation, go to Vega and back up. So that's mostly of the W's and the businesses along McCartt and all those areas. So please at any given time, anytime that you all see me, stop me and let me know if you need anything. Our council member from this point, how would you like to proceed forward? Just answer your questions for the group? Absolutely. Not following the rules. I think it'd be great if, for those of you who are interested in asking particular questions, please do that this time. The staff is here to share updates on particular concerns that you have. And then also to hear from you some things that you would like to see. So yeah, please. I'll start with something. I'm almost afraid to drive these days. If the light turns green, I'm not going to move because somebody's going to come through a red line. Yesterday, I almost got hit up on Cleaverton Road or whatever it is. Was that church usually made? I mean, literally my life had changed and I got in the car with Cleaverton Road and Woodward. Yeah, in Woodward. And today it was out in Mesa and in my car. I mean, I stopped it. I could see the light was turning yellow. By the time I got here, it's red. The car on my left went straight through the red light. What an idiot. It's that intersection. And I never see you guys then. I know you can't be here before saying them. But I do think that they're wrong. People are just driving on crazy and they're getting killed actually, I think. Well, what I would love to do is have you get with someone here to give you a contact number. Because you're right, we can't be everywhere all the time, but especially when we know there are specific areas where we have issues like this, we can concentrate on those areas at least for a limited amount of time. When I was, long before I became chief, I was a sergeant over on motor and motorcycle officers. We did that all the time. A lot of our responsibility was responding to different parts of the city, responding to complaints about speeding, running red lights, aggressive driving, whatever it was, and we would be all over the city. But it wasn't just us. We would coordinate with the NPOs, the men and women you saw here earlier, with the beat officers in the area. Sometimes if it involved the large vehicles, like 18-wheelers, we'd have our commercial motor vehicle enforcement team involved. But you let us know, and again, hopefully one of those times will be there when you're there. But we can respond and make sure that we're doing everything we can to make it as safe as possible. Yeah, and I'll add from a councilor's perspective, we've also been really concerned with high-speed traffic. First, address your issue very specifically. If ever you run into intersections that you think are of concern, you can always send that to me and Kendall in our office. We can call not only PD to do temporary things, like maybe send patrol out there to monitor, but also we can work with TPW to do speed and traffic studies. Those studies help us in how we allocate dollars. It may be issues related to the way the intersection is designed, et cetera, and we can advocate for those things. Once we know there are particular areas of concern and we can make investments to make improvements to that infrastructure. The other thing I'll say is that Kendall and I have also been working with our school districts to create speeding campaigns, and so we're working with TPW. They have grant money to educate our high school seniors. I know I was in high school once, not too long ago, and I didn't always drive slow in this street out here on Alta Mesa. But I had, first of all, God definitely saw fit to keep me from danger when I was doing stupid things. But also, there's a lot of great adults out here who are willing to coach our teens on how to drive responsibly. And so those are a couple of things that we're doing, and that's one way that if you see, and all of y'all, if y'all see intersections that just really don't look safe, you can reach out to our council office. I mean, we can do a study on that, on that particular intersection. I will say there's a couple that we've made improvements on. One right here at Alta Mesa and Grand Bay because you all in the last two listening circles ago, you all had brought up that intersection, the striping, et cetera, and so we were able to get it restriped. Brian Irvin and Alta Mesa, we were able to work with the developers of Tobolo Park to reconstruct that intersection because it just wasn't safe. We're also working with developers as we're growing Southwest to make sure that as they're building new rooftops and new projects, that they're also ensuring that they have adequate infrastructure like stop signs, street lights, so that high-speed traffic and speed racing isn't happening in some of our newer parts of the district that we're currently under development. So it's definitely a concern of ours as well and so please stay in contact and help us identify some of those places, okay? What else? My name's Marvin Champlin and I think Dr. Williams knows all my physicians on various things. But just to tell you why I'm here tonight, I live in Wedgewood. I've lived there for a long time and over the past two years, it's been slowly becoming what's known as Wedgewood and it has a substantial number of violent crimes but also, as you know, but also the petty crimes. The criminals that are starting here are going to become the criminals that become the violent criminals or they're doing the petty crime in order to support the drug crime. We see drug deals, I have seen drug deals on the schoolyard at J.T. Stephens. That's not unusual. We've seen and have lately had two murders within a mile of my house. One at Kingswood and Alta Mesa and one at Hewlin and Alta Mesa. I'm sorry, that's fine. That was the 15-year-old with a gun that came over from the east side, held up a woman in her apartment and then came back and raped her. This is unacceptable in our community. It's never been this way. I've lived here for a long time and it's never been this way. And my question is, because I've raised all this stuff with Dr. Williams, but do you work with the code enforcement people concerning making sure that apartments, the rental properties that are along Alta Mesa and elsewhere and the business properties and one in particular, that's a strip shopping center that looks like hell, looks like war zone to an old soldier. So I'm asking if you work with, if you can and will work with the code enforcement people to support you in an effort to make those areas better and get the owners involved. Thank you. Great question and thank you for your service, sir. Absolutely, we actually work with code compliance frequently. Brandon Bennett is the director of code compliance and very active, very active guy. We have worked on properties before and we also have worked with City Legal, our city attorney's office, on areas that are consistent problems. Those fixes are great, but they're not quick fixes. Unfortunately, there are hoops that have to be jumped through. Some people learn the loopholes, which hit a reset button on the process. We've actually had some very recent wins though, some on the southeast side of Fort Worth, Smokies is shut down now if you didn't know, they actually shut that one down. If there are areas we need to look at that we're not looking at, you think we're not aware of, again, please let us know. If you see something, say something. If you hear something, say something. You know something, say something. We are only as good as the intel we receive. We're only as good as the cooperation we get from the community. We have, my opinion, the best officers in the world that you'll find anywhere. But we need the communities help to know where to focus because you think of that area you're talking about, how many businesses are there? And if we try to get Brandon Bennett and his very small crew, unfortunately a lot of us are small. Hey, we're trying to be good stewards of the money you give us. We can't go out and just hire 100 people for code compliance. Brandon would love that. But unfortunately we're not able to. I will say we have a city council that supports us and does everything they can to get us the resources we need. What we do is try to find the most effective and efficient way to use those resources. So instead of taking Brandon and going from business to business to business, we would love input. We would love information on, hey, this is one of those locations you might want to take a look at. Or I saw drug dealing over here. I think we've got an issue with this one because there are a lot of tools in the toolbox and some of them aren't ours. Some of them are code compliance. Sometimes it's public work. Sometimes it's something the council members are able to come up and say, hey, you know what? I've got an idea too. But working with gentlemen like you who have information, I'm sure you'd be willing to share. I believe we can actually get something done working with code compliance and others like that to address those areas. Yeah, I've also volunteered, Marvin, that he's going to serve on our working group for the reinvestment zone for all to face in my cart. So you can definitely see his passion. We have great neighbors like that that are helping us make some really great strides. So thank you again for your service to the city and for that question. I will say in terms of violent crime, we had a meeting not too long ago. There's also a lot of technological things that we can do in addition to sending code compliance officers and patrol officers and MPOs to particular locations and we're looking into making those investments as well. Of course that takes time and planning those resources, but I know they've talked about things like cameras and other types of technology that we can use to help kind of make our resources go a lot further. And so Chief, would you mind giving just a very short update about like different technological things we can do? Absolutely. Cameras have been a game changer for us. Technology hurts us sometimes because the technologies the criminals have, but sometimes it helps us tremendously. We talked earlier about having technology assist us in knowing who to target. So it's not just a blanket approach, it's a specific approach. We have cameras throughout the city that will run losses plates. And they will tell us, okay, that vehicle's stolen or somebody in that car has a felony warrant, let's go stop that car. Instead of maybe stopping the soccer mom or somebody's coming home after working a double shift. Well, we must stop you, I don't know. Or somebody's just trying to get home after working a double shift. Let's go after the person who, again, selling the drugs, who's got the guns in the community. Those cameras allow us to do that. I talked with the founder and CEO of this one company called Flock, Flock Cameras. And he said, what problem are you having with our cameras? And this isn't me trying to promote a company. This is just a conversation I had with the gentleman. He said, what problems do you have with the cameras? I said, the problem is you're giving us so much, we don't have enough people to make all the stops we need to. That's good information to have. That is good information to have. That has allowed us to do a lot of things differently. Something else, our investigative abilities with what we have is called a real-time crime center. The officer's watching cameras, watching these areas where we have problems, where drugs are being sold, where we know people, maybe gang members are hanging out with weapons, shooting at one another. We've caught people on camera shooting at one another. We were able to solve a homicide by tracking back through our cameras after we located a suspect, saw where they dumped the body. We've been able to solve some crimes that quite honestly, I don't know if we ever would have before. We have one piece of software where someone says, okay, between noon and four o'clock, there was a red truck that drove by and I think they're the ones that shot. It'll go back through all our cameras, look at that time frame and pull out just the red truck so we can narrow down exactly what we wanna look at. Instead of watching four hours of video looking for a truck, we have so many different things now that help us be more specific and in tune with what we need to be doing in our investigations. It's been a complete game changer for us. It's a force multiplier for us because we know exactly what we need to do and where we need to go and we're working on expanding that technology even more. Just so you know, we are not using it to spy on anyone. We actually have some people who fear we're using it to look in their windows and it is not like that. We're using it to make you safer, period. And it's working. Thank you for that. We have two in the back. Denise, if you'd like to go ahead and then. Oh, okay. Okay, please, yeah. Okay, sounds good. Come back to me. Okay, I will, promessa. How do we contact our MPO? So how about we do like this? Kim, one of y'all coordinate with her to see where she lives so that we can pair you with your specific MPO. I've got that one, yeah. Okay, if you will go on the fourth police department website, just Google fourth police department. If you'll scroll down, there's a section like a ribbon across the screen that says one address. Start typing your address in and it will auto populate. Click on that. It will tell you who your MPO is, give you their phone number, your commander, your crime prevention specialist, the location of the nearest police station. It will give you a ton of information. There's actually a lot of really good stuff on our website and we probably don't do a good enough job of getting that out so you know what to look for. We even have a crime mapping piece on there where you can go on, you can put in what you wanna look at, the area you wanna look at, the timeframe you wanna look at and it will show you the crimes that are happening in that area. There's a lot of information on the website that could help out a ton, but if nothing else, remember one address, start typing it in, let it auto populate, click on it and all that information will be right there for you. And we work hard to keep that updated as much as possible. The good news, especially when it comes to MPOs, we try to leave them in place long term. It's about building relationships and if you're changing every week, every month, every six months, you don't get to build those relationships. We've got a lot of MPOs, have actually been in their areas for years and we wanna keep it that way. Come to the mic. This is my district director, Ken Delock. Also too on one address, of course it has where you can find the MPO, but it also has, you can find your neighborhood code officer, you can find our information, our phone number, email address, it has literally everything that pertains to your particular address. The nearest police station, it has the nearest community center, everything is there. So if you never can find it, type in one address in Google, city of Fort Worth, one address and it'll pull up. Thank you, Ken Del. Denise, back at you. My name is Denise Turner. I represent, I'm the president of Summer Creek South Homeowner Association. I wanna let you know, I think you guys are doing an amazing job. I want to actually also say, one address is an incredible tool. It's a phenomenal tool. It has a plethora of information out there as well as the Mind Fort Worth app. So here's your plug for me, okay? But I do have a couple of questions, one regarding the technology. Just to capitalize on that subject matter, you had mentioned, you have a lot of tools at your disposal. And I know at one point, there was discussion about possibly adding drones as well as additional resources. I think about a year ago, there was talk about adding additional resources because our areas, our communities are expanding, there's developing happening everywhere. And my concern has been and always will be, how are you supporting the infrastructure at the pace that it's growing? So I'd like to know a little bit more about that. Yes, we do have drones. That's a brand new technology and law enforcement and a lot of different new rules, regulations, laws pertaining to that are coming around. We're learning about it and how to use it right now. There's actually some pretty amazing stuff being done with the drones. I've not been directly involved with the technology, so I'm not going to try to act like I know. But I will tell you, we have some very smart people who are involved with the program, who are trying to be on the leading edge of what we can do. And there's uses not only from surveillance, there is mapping of accident scenes like the 133 car pile up that happened. We didn't have the technology yet but we called in a company who could map that entire scene in a matter of minutes where it would have taken us hours if not days, doing it the old way. I used to do that job as an accident reconstruction as for the department, would have taken forever. There's things that are helping us be more efficient the way we're doing things. So we try to leverage technology as much as we possibly can because again, it helps us to be able to do the job not only more efficiently, we can do it more cost efficiently as well. And I know the council members are city leadership, the city manager's office, the mayor. If there's some technology, we need there and do what they can to help us get it. Unfortunately, a lot of it's very expensive but we're doing what we can to make sure we're staying on top of things. Was that your full question or was there more you were asking about the growth in the infrastructure? I just wanted to know a little bit more because it was again, it was a topic of discussion, a couple of quarters back about adding some additional technology as well as additional resources. I think there was some talk about adding more officers, more feet on the street. So I wanted to know where you were with that, have you actually expanded your department to add more feet on the street because of where we're at. We're Charleston University. I know that it was anticipated to bring at least 10,000 more residents to this community just with that university alone. And my concern was, how are you gonna support this infrastructure and this rapid growth with resources because more people means more potential activity. So how are you balancing that within our community? We have increased our numbers as a police department. Our allotted staffing level right now is 1,743. Wasn't that long ago, we were in the 1600s. We're 1,743 right now. We recently just added some sergeants and some detectives to our ranks. And over the years we've been increasing the number. We actually had a staffing study done by a consulting group called Matrix several years back. They put something in place that yes, you need more officers and going forward over this many years, this is how many you need. We worked it out with the city, things were going well, then bam, a pandemic. There was a real fear about the economic impact in Fort Worth. Luckily, we really fared better than a lot of communities across the country. But it kind of put a damper on what we had planned. But again, we have council members, a city manager and a mayor who wanna give us what we need to get the job done. But we also understand for every dollar, every extra dollar that goes to PD, that's one less extra dollar that goes to the streets you need out there. That's one less dollar that goes to the libraries you need, the fire department you need. The community deserves the best of everything. And obviously we need more officers and we're working on getting that. But we're trying to be good partners with everyone else in the city. What I want you to know is as we're working on those numbers, as our staffing numbers are starting to climb because let me tell you this, we're 114 officers down right now. Of the 1,743 we're allowed to do 114 down from that number. We've got a class of 45 graduating on the 17th of this month. A class that's got about 41 is gonna graduate in May. We start a class of 66 or 67 in January and another class of about the same in June or July. So we are getting our numbers up there. And before I can really go to city council and say, Dr. Jay, I need 100 more officers. I got a lease show I can get up to the staffing level we have now. The issue is we're having more attrition now. We're having more officers are leaving the profession. Some are retiring because it's time. They've done 25, 30, 35 years. What's concerning is when you see officers leave who haven't even met retirement yet, they're fed up with policing. It's not like they're leaving to go to another agency. They're fed up with policing. What I will say is in force, we don't see it like other agencies. I say this all the time. When you look at other large cities across the country, I challenge you to find one that has a community that supports the police department like we do. I don't think you're gonna find one. And because of that, I think we're faring a lot better. Lastly, I'm gonna say on it, even though we are down, even though we are struggling to get to that number we wanna be at and we will get there, these people you see in these uniforms go out every day doing extra work to get the job done to make sure you're safe. I can't be more proud to be a part of that team. I can't be more proud to be their chief. They made me proud every single day and it's what keeps me going. And I'll just add to that chief, through an amazing alley-oop, we recognize the staffing issues as a council, not only with PD, also with FIRE, especially to your point, us growing Southwest. Some of the things that I've been in conversation with, particularly as we continue to grow Southwest, is ensuring that we have the opportunity between this bond that's coming up in May and the next bond, which is 2026, which is a long time, and a lot of development is gonna be happening between then to say between those bonds, how do we still get the resource that we need to make sure that we have first responders in as we continue to grow Southwest? And so we're able to do things like have temporary stations and there's funds generally available based on the need in the city for us to do those kinds of things to get us to the next bond to build permanent stations. So that's something that we're very on top of with this upcoming bond, making sure that if we don't get a police or fire station that we're planning for the growth with temporary stations to get us to the next bond. Another thing I wanna say is with the staffing needs, we also have been working really hard on council. Some of y'all may have seen the meeting, particularly with our FIRE, we've requested as a council for a staffing study. And so that is in the works. And so you'll see that coming back in 2022 and for the next budget cycle we'll be addressing that as well. The other thing I will say is I think it's really important that we grow our next generation of public servants to chief's point and we've been working on a homegrown heroes initiative. We're partnering with Crowley ISD and with Ford Police and FIRE to basically create a program for high school juniors and seniors to choose a career pathway in FIRE, police EMT and dispatch or emergency communications. That's something that we haven't talked about today, but our 911 call centers, we've had staffing issues not just in the city of Fort Worth, all across the county. And that's something that is an amazing career opportunity if we can connect kids to those opportunities and connect their passion to those opportunities as well. And so with that program, we're looking at things like can we pay for work study for kids while they're in high school and their junior senior year to make a living, right? While they're in school to pursue this career, things like partnering with TCC and Tarleton State to ensure that if they wanna go pursue college education in a related field that they're able to do that and that we're paying for that as well. I mean, ultimately that there's a job waiting for them in the budget, in the city budget on the end of it. We met with Dr. McFarland who's the superintendent of Crowley ISD and they can create programs in partnership with us, they're all in for that. Their biggest thing is we wanna make sure that there's a job for that child at the end of it cause that's a game changer for our families here. And so that's another initiative that we're working on to address some of the staffing issues and we're hoping that that'll launch in the fall. So excellent questions. The one other thing I'll hit is infrastructure. We're working constantly with developers to make sure we have other things that keep neighbors safe like sidewalks, school zones, crosswalks, lighting, lighting in parks, security measures in parks as well. And all of those things are things that we need your help on. When you see things that we can make improvements on, please send that to our office. We can route that to TPW and work with other departments to try to solve those issues as well. So thank you. One other very important topic and I can't believe I didn't think of this when you talked about infrastructure and service to this growing area. Part of the 2018 bond package, which the voters of Fort Worth approved, thank you, included a new division, a new police station for South Division. And I've seen the artist's rendering is beautiful. It's absolutely amazing. And actually I'm gonna ask Deputy Chief Greg Weathers if he'll come up and talk about it. He was the commander in South Division when this whole process started and he's stayed on it since. And I'm gonna tell you what, if you want an advocate for something like this, this is your guy, because he's been a bulldog and he hasn't let go. So I'll let you talk about it. Thank you, thank you. Yes, sir. The mic is not for vertically challenging people. So just so you know, like you said, the Chief mentioned in 2018, we got the bond package for the South Division building. It's about 32,000 square feet. We'll have about close to 200 people working in that facility. Initially, the construction was gonna start in about 2019. COVID hit, we had to change builders. There were some more issues going on. So finally at this point, we're actually hopefully getting closer to actually starting to move some dirt, build it up. We're hoping it's done by 2023. We'll have, right now you have a sector at McCartt. I'm trying to give you a good idea. Maybe McCartt and- Sycamore. Sycamore. Then you have one at 31 28 West Bowl. So we have two officer station in separate areas, right? So our idea is to combine those officers in one facility, and it's gonna be South at McCartin-Risinger. And the reason is that we're looking at the growth and that's where a lot of the growth is, right? Also across from us is gonna be a brand new library. So part of our facility that we're gonna have, we're gonna have a community room. We're gonna have a workout room for officers. We're gonna have a lot of things inside of this facility that we just don't have. Currently the bolt office was built in maybe 1960. And we're renting space by the Dominoes. So we get Domino's pizza, not free very often. And not good for cardio. Yeah, and not good for the officers. So, and I know the young lady asked a question about John 18, your MPO is Officer Hayes. Oh, there she is, she's right there next to you. I will tell you that Assistant Chief Aldridge and I have already been talking about looking at the beat sizes and that impacts call load, response time, and some of those things. So that's something that we are looking at is, John 18 is big and it's getting bigger. And John 16 is also big in that area as well. So we are looking at maybe doing a beat alignment, but it may take a year. But hopefully when the building comes in place, we'll have all new boundaries because we've just got so much growth in all parts of the city that we're gonna have to look at realigning. And when we do a realigning, we go back and we look at call load. So we do staffing based by call load. So that way we can say, hey, South Division needs, I'm gonna say a hundred more officers, right? I won't get them, but I'll ask for them. So that's just to, yeah, there we go. So that's typically what we do is anytime we get that growth, we start to look at the cities growing, how do we respond, what do we do to decrease our response time? And we also look at the MPOs. Because an MPO, if they have an area like John 18 by themselves, they're busy. You have schools, you've got colleges, you've got 20 residential neighborhoods easily, which is hundreds of people, easy. So we do look at all of those things to address the growth in the city. Next question? Yes, ma'am. I live one block south of Alta Mesa from the Y. If you look straight out of my backyard and cross Alta Mesa, you wind up in that Y sports complex. And I garden, I'm out in my yard a lot. And the street racing along Alta Mesa, particularly in warm weather, from about 930 to 1030 or 11 at night, I swear, I keep waiting to hear loud booms and crashes. And it's just, I know it can't be everywhere all the time. And the other thing is the, a similar thing, not quite so bad happens when Southwest High School gets out at 340 every day. And there's screeching of tires and truck people trying to beat the red light. But it's the street racing in the evening after dark in the summertime when I'm most likely to be out in my yard sitting there enjoying myself after I put in a hard day gardening. And I just wanted you to try to make note of that. It probably will slow down with the colder weather. But in the summertime, when I'm out, I'm particularly aware of it. Right. I'll tell you what the street racing, it's a problem nationwide. One of the things that we run into is it's put on social media and they can have 20 cars show up in 15 minutes, right? So as we get that information, then it's up to us to try to respond. Well, patrol has a response for accidents, violent crime. That is their very first priority. Now we do have a director response unit and they've had a lot of success because if we can catch a flyer from a car club, we just got invited to the meetup, right? So a lot of that does happen. And I will tell you the MPOs have been really good about adjusting their schedule, but it's just like going fishing, right? Sometimes you catch a lot of fish, sometimes you don't catch anything. And it's hard because they're having to adjust their hours, they're working days and they go nights. They can spend a week on nights and I promise you they will not catch one person. Then the day they go back to day shift, there'll be 15 cars that raced up and down my cart. So we are aware of it and we try to address it, but it is something that is continually, it happened at the drop of a hat, it's very quick and easy, but it is something that we are trying to address the best we can. Yeah, and again, I think in addition to everything that has been said, it's also important that we're looking at the traffic patterns in some of these corridors. Ultimacy is a really important one because of things like that. I mean, so we're able to do traffic studies and we have done one on that one. And through this reinvestment work and our bond work, we're trying to figure out ways that we can find dollars to make some improvements that recondition the flow of traffic so that the speeds aren't as high or not at a high rate. So thank you for that. And if you, like they said, if you hear things, Chief said it earlier, if you hear things, please reach out to us, whether it's you hearing about something that's going down in the neighborhood in terms of racing in particular, or if you just have seen consistent high-speed traffic, I mean, a given week, let us know and we can coordinate with the team as well, okay? We have time maybe for- I just spoke with Councilwoman- Please. So my name is Brandy. I just graduated my last son from Southwest High School and I know the principal Ingalls, you tell him, Brandy Gonzales volunteered you, he thinks. Yeah, I don't doubt it. If you reach out to him about the issues that you have with the students at Southwest, he will get on it. He's a wonderful principal. He's about students, but he's also about the community. Let him know. I will definitely be sending an email to him tomorrow and letting him know that this is something that needs to be addressed in officers and campus monitors that they can put out there after school. And if you include us, our Council Office on that as well, we'd love to follow up on it too, okay? Yeah, we have time for maybe two more questions. I saw two hands. I see three hands right now and I know the camera guy's probably gonna really hate me, but let's do all three. If y'all could make it really quick so that we can honor all three of your questions, okay? Yes, sir. My name is Yusuf Howard, I live in Summer Creek South and the majority of the questions that I had and you've answered are regarding staffing. I did make a phone call. I called in a few months back. There was some folks that had loud music at Life Church. It was two in the morning response time. I don't know if you guys actually ever showed up to be honest with you. I know there's probably other things that did speak with Officer Hayes and I haven't seen that again, but we still have like most areas, the street racing, the donuts at Rising or in Summer Creek, you know, that's growing. And with staffing, I understand that I appreciate all the technology, but you really, technology can only take you so far. You really need to have boots on the ground. That's what's more effective. My question with this is, do you guys have a mutual aid agreement with maybe Crawley PD or somewhere else where when you're having issues because what I'm noticing is the crimes that they're speaking about in the Wedgwood area and all those, starting to see that, starting to shift towards this way. And if you can't get a handle on it there, it just starts to just grow and grow and grow. Start pushing from here and start pushing back and wipe all of it out. I know that's a big order, it's a tall ask, but it is something that, you know. Right, and I'll tell you that the, when we did mutual aid agreements or worked with somebody, we brought in DPS. So DPS brought in probably about 50 officers. They said, I didn't bring enough, right? So the thing about is when you bring in different officers, they don't know everybody, right? So they don't always know the hot spots, the areas. They don't know what you're individually dealing with. So it's good to do those agreements when you have something in what they defined goal. But if you just say, I wanna address street racing, we don't want DPS to address street racing. That's not what their primary goal is, right? So we do work with other agencies if we needed to. Crowley, they're primarily just starting their school district PD. I know they do have their regular officers, but I can tell you, they just don't have enough officers on the street for their own issues they're dealing with. So it's a cycle of trying to get a lot of bodies out here and always just putting more officers on the street doesn't always address the crime, right? Some of it has gotta be education for the individuals. Hey, street racing is dangerous. You can kill yourself, you can kill someone else. And those are some of the avenues that we do. We'll also use Next Door. We'll put out all kinds of just general information as far as we use our Facebook, we use our Instagram, we use Twitter. So we do things as just public education. It's just really trying to continue to stay on top of that education so that the young individuals that are primarily younger drivers that are doing it start to understand that, hey, this is a safety issue for everybody in the community, not just for yourself. So what you're saying is if I'm hearing correctly, when DPS came in, visibility of more officers on the street, that doesn't deter, is that? It's crime is very transient and crime has happened just at the drop of a hat, right? And it helps with some people, but it doesn't just stop crime because I can tell you, we can have a hundred DPS officers lined up and down McCart, right? And then we can have a robbery two blocks off of McCart. I mean, it's just people, if they decide to do the crime, we do our best to have that availability in that presence, but it doesn't always deter someone from committing a crime. We wish it would, right? Cause I could put out a hundred cars with nobody in them, right? Yeah, we should. Right, but I'm just saying in general, that's what we do hope that our presence does deter crime and it does to a certain extent, but it doesn't always deter crime. And I think that's why it's important that when we're talking about addressing issues, like you mentioned, what you're really important that we're doing it from a comprehensive way, right? That we're using multiple strategies and working with community to identify places that are areas of concern to make sure that we're addressing that. So, well received. Chief, did you want to add anything to that before? Pretty good intelligence from the folks that I'm hearing here, because they're giving a specific location where these are happening. I've given a specific location and time where things are happening. So, again, I appreciate the technology, but folks here are saying this is where it's happening. These are the times that it's happening. And that's why we're here, you know? That's why we're here. Unfortunately, we haven't acted on what we heard today. You gotta give us a little time to act on the intel we're getting here, but what I can tell you is we will. And something else talking about working with other agencies, I think I understood what you were saying about coming from both ends and getting it in the middle. We work with, we have crime analysts to look at all these issues. We have crime prevention specialists who work in the neighborhoods. We have information we're able to collect. Well, these other agencies collect information as well. The good thing there is a network of these crime analysts that share information. A lot of our detectives will work with detectives and other agencies say, hey, we're seeing this problem, are y'all too? Oh, you're dealing with the same person we are. All right, let's combine our resources and do something about it. So, we do work with local, county, state, and federal partners. I mean, we're working with the DEA, FBI, HSI, everybody we possibly can to get an ATF, everybody we can to make sure we're pulling and bringing all resources to bear that we can. And you're right. If I could put an officer on every corner, would that be great? Well, it depends on who you ask. Someone say yes, someone say no, it's a little bit too much. But yeah, absolutely. We're gonna get as many officers as we can get as we're able to get them. And we know that our council, our city's gonna work with us to do that. We're doing the best, I guarantee you, with what we have right now. And part of that is partnering with other agencies for that force multiplier, because you're right. Technology is great, but it will never replace folks like this right here. So with the staffing that you're bringing in, how many officers, new recruits that are coming in, will be in this area, this district? So I know that is a very important question. We're running short on time. Let's link up after the meeting. We'll dive really deep into it. I wanna be able to honor the last two questions tonight and we'll close out. But please connect with me. It sounds like we might have some opportunities to put you on a working group as well. So thank you for your passion and for lifting up those receptors is really important. Ma'am, please. I work with a group called Grandmothers Against Gun Violence. So and with the tragic event that happened this past week, what does Fort Worth ISD bring to the table and the police department? How are y'all working with the high schools and with the other schools to prevent these tragic? I'll speak from the council perspective and then I'll pass it to the chief. For me, my parents were educators. My dad just retired from South Hills High School. And so my background is in education. And so partnerships with our school districts are really important to me. In fact, I have, we're starting a regular meeting with trustee Ann Dar and Anna L. Leuvenos who are Fort Worth ISD trustees that overlap and share boundaries so that we can address specific issues. Sometimes the school district doesn't have the resources and sometimes the issues that we need them to solve are not in their lane, they're in the city's lane. I mean, so if we're not coordinating and have a meeting together, it's hard to know what those issues are. So one, I think it's important that elective representatives between school districts, I mean, the city build a partnership and you've seen that a lot with this particular council with the mayor's leadership and her background in education as well. The second thing we've been working on, I think it's important that we have strong relationships with our particular schools. We do tons of community events at our schools intentionally to build those relationships. And then also we work with departments like TBW, specifically with the speed issue. We're working on a speed awareness campaign through the grant that they have to address some of the issues like folks burning out of the school parking lot ready to go home or to McDonald's or all the fun places that we all went to after high school was outright. And so we're partnering with departments like that on specific initiatives address some of the issues that are experienced. So needless to say, I'm all in for any partnerships that we can continue to make with our school districts. Chief. This question brought up something to mind. I failed to introduce Nicole Garcia right here, my executive assistant. If it wasn't for Nicole, I wouldn't even be here today. She's the one to make sure I get where I need to go. I bring her up because we were at a meeting recently with Dr. Scribner, the superintendent of Fort Worth ISD and his director of security, Mr. Danny Garcia, who's retired from Fort Worth PD. That was the first topic we talked about. School safety, violence in schools, active shooters on school property, what the Fort Worth PD and Fort Worth ISD can do together to partner to make sure our schools are safe as they absolutely possibly can be. Number one discussion we had, and it's an ongoing conversation that's gonna include training on school property, training at our facility, bringing Fort Worth ISD staff to our facility to train, but also training at the schools to make sure we're giving tools and resources in how to respond. If responding to an active shooter is not something that we ever want anyone to ever have to experience in Fort Worth, but it's already happened once, more than once, at churches, multiple churches here in Fort Worth. And we pray to God it never happens at a school, but we're gonna make sure we're prepared. Working with Fort Worth ISD to make sure the staff and the school, the students are as prepared as they can be in the unlikely, well, in the God-forsaken instance that hopefully never happens in our city. And then the last one was you, sir. Yes, sir. You guys have answered a whole lot of questions because I don't think there's near enough police officers that we have before work. By the time everybody gets out of school, we're gonna be short then. Fort Worth is growing too fast. My question is to tie in with all this, I know you guys can't be everywhere this impossible. What if I see somebody cutting my catalytic converters off, which happened, I just stand there way back, I'll see you next time. What can we do? I mean, I know you're not gonna get there in time to do anything. So what recourse does the property owner say? I don't encourage you to engage, I don't. Your safety is more important than that catalytic converter to me. Is it expensive? Yes, it is. Well, something, but something I want you to know is don't think we take catalytic converter theft lightly. We're actually part of several task forces. We have a group that's working on catalytic converter thefts of Fort Worth, some of our detectives and officers who've actually uncovered international rings for catalytic converter theft. The precious metals in those catalytic converters are ridiculous. I mean, you go to F-250, what do you walk away with $1,000 in three minutes? So we're actually, we're going after not only the people that are stealing them, but anyone that's buying them, including businesses. And through that, we have made some significant arrests. We're trying to find new ways to help identify things, identify people. But it was, I'll be honest, it kind of shocked me when I found we were actually able to uncover an international converter theft, or catalytic converter theft ring. So you're asking my advice, and I will give it, your life is not worth that catalytic converter as expensive as it is. We ask that we call you, can I guarantee you we'll get there before that person leaves? I can't, I wish I could. But I would much rather get there to take a report from you about your catalytic converter being stolen than from your neighbor, because you maybe were run over, shot and killed, because you tried to stop the person. That's the reason I say what I do. I understand the frustration. For us not getting there as quickly as you would like, I understand it. I've had to call the police before myself. It's frustrating. But your safety for me is more important than any property ever could be. And I'll just- What she just said in reference to the catalytic converter- That's something like the way the folks at home Anything going around your home? Gather your information. I just- I just- I just- I just- I just- Gather information. While things are going on, we want to thank everybody. All of you all have great security systems around your home. You all have cameras, you have ring cameras. You have all this information that you can gather. If someone is doing something around there, just try your best to get a description of the person. If the person is driving a vehicle, try to get their license plate number. Any information that you all give us is valuable because we can use that information we're finding. The next day we'll see the license plate. Our camera pick it up, okay, boom. We know that person was involved in the crime. Now we can find that vehicle where it went to and then, on the whole, as she just said, that's how the rings are being really discovered because we find the individuals at that point of time whenever they're doing it, going somewhere else to commit more crime. So to you, sir, gather information. The license plate, the vehicle, is a height, weight of the person that you see. Any information that you all can gather will be outstanding. Real quick, in reference to that on the next door, which I'm on every day, people are always on there every day, something like that is happening. It was here a few weeks ago. Some people pulled up in broad daylight, two guys, they parked right beside the car, one got out and jacked it up, the other got out there and saw them off. And there was somebody in the neighborhood saw what was going on with his camera, he comes up filming these people. They let it down, I'm sorry, propane torch, and it's chasing half doing the filming off with a propane torch. That, I mean, what can you, yeah? Yeah, that's- Those people like that, I mean, they're just gonna keep doing it and keep doing it. That guy, I think, I'm sorry, I will say, I feel that frustration as well. One of my family members recently, their catalytic converter was taken. And recently we had a council meeting talking about this very thing. I was really impressed that we had experts specifically on catalytic converters in our fourth PD. And one of the things that I asked her in that meeting was, well, what can we do? And there's some things that we can do if you do have a garage, ensuring that you're able to park it in as much as often, if you're able to secure your car in any kind of way, do those kind of things. Our team is doing our very best to make sure that we're addressing the ring aspect of that, to make sure that those catalytic converters aren't able to be purchased, right? If we're able to do that, then it's less valuable back on the street. So it's certainly a tough challenge to solve, and I feel your pain as well. And that's something that we got to work on and that your perspective that you lifted up, we're taking that back to the city hall to continue work on. If there's something you could suggest, or a sure fire away, I think the stuff in that is don't, you can't sell a catalytic converter unless it's attached to the car. I would take that back and see if we can do a resolution on that actually. That might be a good ordinance there. I'm gonna get you a name and maybe we'll name it after you as well because that's an amazing idea. Thank you for that. And it was a laugh because I think he heard my note that I just asked him to help me remember. We got a right, if we can write an ordinance about that, I think that is one way. Of course, there's nuances to that. So we'll have to take that back to the team. That's certainly a great idea to explore some. So without any further ado, thank you all so much for the passion, the stories that you shared, the perspectives that you lifted up. It's these kinds of conversations that helps us in doing our job better. Of course, building strong neighborhoods. Of course is related to having safe neighborhoods and we need your help to do that. I mean, y'all certainly did help us tonight. We will be having more listening circles. Kendall helped me out. We have one in January. We haven't set the date, but what's the topic on homelessness? And so I know some of y'all have reached out to us. There are folks certainly in between homes right now with the pandemic. It hasn't made life any easier for some of our neighbors. And so we will be having a conversation about that in January. Stay tuned for the date. We'll promote it as we always do to talk about those issues. And as always, I really enjoy these conversations because y'all allow for space for us to take notes and take homework back to City Hall to work for you. So thank y'all again. Yes, sir, please. And we got it 30 seconds, please. As a resident, we want to thank you guys for putting y'all's lives. Our butts, you might say. Yeah. But I want, as a group here, I don't want to get nowhere in your faith or not. You may not be able to legally do it on here, but I want to pay for every one of you guys. So we'll look, y'all bow your heads right now, please. Father, we just come right now. You see each one of these officers. You see what they go through every day. They put their lives out there for us to protect us, to keep us safe. Lord, we ask that you put your angels around them and keep them safe, keep them from harm, keep them from getting shot, keep them from getting sideways with an ill-ray person. Father, just send your peace with them everywhere they go, for they are peacemakers, Father. So how I'll allow them to be the peacemaker in the situation that comes in Jesus' name, we pray. Thank you so much. What better way to close than that? So thank you again, sir, for that that was really, really meaningful to me. Thank you all for being here. Thank you to our PD team. Y'all are just completely amazing. I'm always speechless when I think about just the sacrifice that y'all make and the opportunity that I get to work alongside y'all. So thank y'all again. We'll see y'all at the next one. We'll be hanging around and we all have cards. So please connect with us. We'll give you our information so that we can keep the conversation going. Thank y'all. Have a happy holidays. Take care.