00:00Yesterday, she was on TV talking about public safety, talking about the police.
00:04She said that we've seen a drop in the police force, but
00:07she thinks that we need to maintain the size of our police force.
00:10And grapple with the fact that it's not enough,
00:13even now, to respond to 911 calls in a timely fashion.
00:17She's pretty consistently taken votes on the city council against increasing
00:20the size of the LAPD.
00:22She voted against the union deal.
00:25So I just wanted to hear your response to hearing her going on TV and
00:29making a statement like that.
00:30Well, let me just say, and then also the purpose of this Q&A is about the Executive Directive.
00:36If people do want to ask me political questions, we can just do that afterwards.
00:41I don't want to hold everybody up here.
00:43But let me just respond immediately to say that in the nation's second largest city,
00:48the last thing we need to do is to lose the number of officers we have.
00:54So what I am pushing is hiring to attrition.
00:58And that is the stance I've taken and will continue to take.
01:01Understand that people might have differences along the way.
01:05Any questions about the Executive Directive?
01:06I'm happy to take questions.
01:09Why did you say she's going to do it if she wasn't going to do it?
01:12Is there a question that I can help direct?
01:14Well, we want to hear it from her, right?
01:16Okay.
01:16Well, she's not coming back out right now.
01:18Okay.
01:19So she lied to us.
01:20Okay.
01:21I'm not going to.
01:22I'm not going to.
01:23Right?
01:26And remeer your question
01:30I'm going to do it for years to change.
01:34No problem atkell.
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