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Death. These are stories that do not have the luxury of turning away but they have to respond situations and take responsibility for it. This is what passes for normal in their report. The work at officers through today take a huge toll on the human mind and body and soul and many of her officers who suffer from it we continue to work to help others and they should receive psob benefits. They should receive these benefits as a result of turn four. I appreciate the opportunity and urge you to consider this as we move forward. Thank you for your testimony. Next well hear from Jonathan Thompson e...

Because we know that you have a great relationship, or at least, you know on the distribution better than most. Your mayor brought you here. You have twice monthly meetings with your police chief. But for someone whos starting not from a good a position of, you know relatively good relations, i think maybe there are some more concrete things you can say about how you let it start with the union representative. And if you could give us ideas about a strategy, that would be useful, at least for me to hear. Like getting your membership on board or something. I dont know how you do that. Its a fai...

Over 146 officer fatalities per year. That is a shocking number. One officer killed somewhere in america every 60 hours. All right. But the good news is that numbers are going down. If you go back to the 1970s we were averaging 231 officers killed in the line of duty each and every year. That means the 146 number i cited is 37 lower than it was 40 years ago. That is at a time we have double number of officers serving and putting themselves at risk. Would you have expected that number would have gone up, not down. There are a number of factors that are responsible for that and i have enumerated...

Prf. I hope they dont end with a report. I hope its a springboard to action. Thank you, mr. Pasco. Very interesting. Our last speaker on this panel is dustin smith. Hes president of the Sacramento Police officers association. Welcome. Good afternoon. And thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today. What id like to first comment on is the fact that we create a large part of the publics perception of their local Law Enforcement. No manner of outreach can overcome what we create. Please let me define we. By we i mean the police unions, Police Departments and the governments. We need...