escalating homicide rate in north charleston. and quite frankly, as a senator, i received an increased number of citizen complaints about how law enforcement treated the people there. and so we worked together the city and myself and a number of legislators in a bipartisan way, to fund the purchase of 115 body cameras back may of last year that proviso passed in january of this year. we held a press conference daetding that we were going to purchase body cameras in addition -- and here's the critical point, to creating programs for this law enforcement agency to work with the community to foster better relations. and so, yes, we're aware of a troubled history with the number of incidents. but we are trying to address that. and the legislature in a large way blessed the funding of the anti-crime community policing
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