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And i think we are committed to doing a better job to bringing all of this together so our officers can do really our core function. and that's stopping crime, stopping violent crime, stopping open air drug use and sales. we've been pushed beyond that. we've been asked to address the unhoused crisis in our city in a way that goes beyond what we're trained to do and what we should be doing. i think this is music to my ears and many of our officers, most of our officers, this is bell come. >> and probably many residents. i'm enjoying this conversation and candor. will you hang with us through th...

Folks, they will be arrested. they will be cited. they will be arrested, and we'll give people options, but we have to be consistent in upholding the law. that's really difficult to do when you're asked to do too many things. and a lot of those things really distract from our core function. >> i just want to key in on something you said. you said, we have to be consistent, and i want to know what that means. and you said, we're trying to do too many things. first what do you mean you have to be more consistent? with what? >> well, we have to be more consistent with people understanding that we...

But you need support and understafunding and need an infrastructure to do the job the way the public is demanding us to do it. this is a huge step toward making things a little easier for officers to get out and do the enforcement they've been asked to do and not so much have to worry about the social side of this because we are really enhancing that part of it so our officers have options to get people help and those people that just are insisting on using drugs in the street and some of the things we see in the city, those folks will be arrested. they will be cited and arrested and we'll giv...

Flourish. if it's part of facebook's core function, do they have any interest in actually making their platform safer? >> i mean, i really think a lot of these discussions boil down to exactly that. if people inside of the company -- if the people who know facebook's products the best are saying, look, the way things go viral on this platform can be dangerous to people and we need to tamp those down, and folks tat the top of the compan are either unwilling or unable to rein that in, for whatever reason want to say, if you think it's profit, if you think it's growth, then that's -- you know, th...

To sort of dig up the stories that facebook is not so willing to present, which, you know, has come through in a lot of these documents. does it show everything that they do inside of facebook? no. but does it show a lot of things they don't want people to see? yeah. and i think that's important for the public to know about. >> that was a very judicious way to answer that question. i thought it was a good answer. i really did. in your reporting on these documents, you write how in august 2019, in an internal memo, researchers said that the core product mechanics, meaning the basics of how the ...