 Where a lot of our employees are sure asking themselves why all the changes is a change for the sake of making change I would say absolutely not you know as I have stated in the past and I've stated for the last 30 to 40 years I believe that our primary responsibility is a prevention of crime and I will tell you that every change that we have made During my short time here It's been for the purpose of putting us in the very best position of being able to prevent crime more effectively While we've done some phenomenal things way prior to Robert White being the chief of police and Denver police Denver police department. I think Denver police department had done some great things I do believe though, however there we can do a better job as relates to preventing crime and in order to make that happen We just simply had to make some structural changes since some women have been relatively significant But I really want the troops to know and I want the community to know that every last one of those changes From my perspective has been done for the purpose of making us more effective in preventing crime from occurring I know there's been a lot of questions about our new our new mission statement, which is the essence of preventing crime In a fashion where everyone's treated with dignity and respect now Does that mean that you don't lock up the person that committed the robbery? Absolutely, you like that the person that committed the robbery and they need to have their day in court And whatever the outcome is is what the outcome should be more than likely However, that person still is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect, you know And as as and I've had conversations with individuals who tell me that the police officers feel like they don't matter Police officers absolutely matter But I think what we all have to be mindful of is what what is our primary purpose? Why are we police officers? Why are we here every single day? Why are we collecting a check and we're collecting that check because we get paid to provide a service to this community and Ultimately that that is judged on our ability to prevent crime from occurring and if we're going to be effective in Preventing an extra crime from occurring the greatest resource we have other than those police officers are out there driving big white every single day Or the citizens the 620,000 citizens that live in this community The reality of it is citizens are more willing to work with us if they know us if we treat them with dignity and respect And if they have a voice as it relates to the quality of life of issues in their neighborhood, that's why we have the team policing That's why we change the district and the precinct boundaries all of those are being done For the purpose of putting us better connected with the community and thereby making us more effective as relates to what I think our ultimate responsibility is and that's preventing crime from occurring I Absolutely loved Denver. There's been some surprises some great surprises. I'll tell you that one surprise has been the weather I had no idea that was 300 plus days of sunshine in Denver You know when you're when you're sitting on the East Coast and you're watching a Broncos player a playoff game It seems like it's always in a snow blizzard and then saying yourself God you wouldn't want to live there But man once I got here and I saw that the wonderful weather and how how kind people are I mean there's the diversity of the city. My wife is big into the arts the arts are Many foe as it relates to the city She said an opportunity to be in to be engaged in many different forms of arts This community has truly embraced us and not to mention you know, I'm a big sports guy I'm a big professional sports guy While I'm a die-hard Washington risking fan. I've learned to love the Denver Broncos