Andre Dickens

The goal is to be smart on crime, and so we have to have a balanced approach to safety and justice, that means getting more officers in because we lost about 400 to 500 officers over the past three years. So I'm trying to get those 400 officers back, but training them in conflict resolution and skills on how to de-escalate issues so that they can be better community-based cops.

There was a morale challenge across the last couple of years with Covid and with a lot of issues related to police, excessive use of force that went unchecked, but then... everybody said get rid of police and these sorts of things.