I gave him a camera and he followed around some people and gave us some good flavor for the department. It really shows and reflects how friendly our officers are but you can also see a lot of serious life-threatening situations on there.
It's a deadly combination. It's always been a problem.
We knew it was time for change. We had personnel on there that had been gone for four years.
The success is making sure we have the right tool and secondly that it's being used correctly.
If anything, it wakes young people up to a sense of mortality and how your life can end at a moment's notice.
These are people many of whom are career criminals based on prior and current activity.
We are very open in continually looking at our policy and training.
Obviously the guns are out there but it's a matter of finding them and getting the right people on the team.
As much as we sometimes go after repeat offenders it's a constant battle with people like this who go to jail and then come right back and commit crimes again. It's always a good thing to take people like Valle off the street.
