Council 6-23-2026 [62:12-67:13]

Sometimes I don't even know if we've got anybody over right now. I'm not saying report from anybody. Thank you so much. You got one, don't you, Jim. Yeah, you got one. But yeah, I did. And it's my understanding that the reporting and I could be wrong with this. But I don't know this would be a fact. It's just that what I was always told was a police officer. The reason that, you know, our speed limits, when they were 55 or 55 because if it's not 55, we don't get how we grant money. It's kind of a motivation like that. Well, I think that if you don't fill out the UCC and some of your funding through like overtime projects and stuff like that might be technically for me. I don't know that to be true, but that's just what I was always told as a police officer. So, but I looked up specifically and it's, they didn't show up. They don't have an award. I don't possibly it's leaked in with the sheriff's department. Sheriff, you know, if that's not, is not. So there's no or originating number that they use through NCIC and all that good stuff. So it's not on there, but if it was, it still, I don't believe it changed a whole lot. I mean, there were a lot of drug arrests over there for a period of time. But a lot of that's just, I think they've got everything or control with whatever they're doing seems to be working. So I don't see it burning down over there. So they've got to figure it out. The same one more question about the chart on, I believe that's the x-axis, but it's been a while since I've been in a math class. If I was any good at that, I'd be a medical doctor. So if you're going to quiz me on that, I want to fill. Now, but the numbers are like 120 and 40. Are those that number, like that represents one or is that 1000? I'd have to go back and look. There was a lot of information on that because they, what you have to do on that, when you go to that side, if you, it starts off state. And then you got to narrow it down by the county. And then you go in and, when you get your county report, you've got to pick out every agency. And those are the only agencies that I could pick out that were local. And now that would also exclude any kind of cases that the state police have investigated with. Well, around which there's some, but predominantly not, I mean, better in the sheriff's department. There would be people that handle a majority of those costs just by the nature of the beast with how we work as a community. But the, like I said, you can get on that website. It's down there. And you can play around with it and say, I'm misled. You're new. Good. I've reported one to you. But generally, I think it speaks volumes. So that's, I thought it was a pretty good indicator of how we're doing. And then, I'm going to have a question. What do you think has attributed to that specifically? I mean in my own, in my own mind, I mean law enforcement is a huge part of that. And then, you know, I think having a prosecutor that said that I'm going to go to people accountable. I'm holding people accountable. I think if you get a hug when you do something wrong, if you get smacked in the head and go to prison, I think that's going to change your behavior. I like to think that I'm not hugging everybody that we deal with. We do give out a few hugs, but those are few and far between. Are the numbers, I guess, the numbers that you actually tried, those are, where's that compare than previous? How we tried. I mean cases we tried. I tried to do a research on that. The problem that we would run into on that is that the data that we utilize, not this report, but the trial data for example, would be kept in the prosecutor case management system. And when I come to office, there were literally file folders everywhere. There was no computer in our office that I found that had any kind of information on it. So it's easy for me to go and court up to what we've done since we've been here. But if I go back at time, I don't even know how to do that. Are we the most triumas people? I don't think that that would be a fair thing to say. I try to be pretty reasonable and still offer plea deals because there's an advantage for that. If we go to trial, then I lose my ability to object to modifications. I'm not saying this happens here, but death happened in Venomber County when I was over there. You would see a crime occur that was all over the news and it was horrible. And they'd go in and the judge would give them a really heavy sentence. What they don't say is a year later, they'd come in when they were able to modify that. And the judge would quietly modify them out, but they're not still in prison. So when you go to a jury trial, or if you do what's called an open plea, which we don't normally do in our office, I have a strict policy, we don't do that unless it goes through me. And I can probably count on one hand, to my knowledge, how many of those we've done. If you have a closed plea or a fixed plea, don't be a person that can modify that to me. And I'm not going to really negotiate with myself.