Sorry about that. I have to get my little notes out here, since there was a binder up here. So, good afternoon. Well, thank you. I know it's kind of a little lackluster there, so I will take that as a you're not going to be too much questioning audience. Sounds like it's a little sleep out there. But just like to start by letting the Milwaukee press club and I thank them for this opportunity to present. I will say whether I'm glad to be here after I hear the questions, and so I'll say that for one for later. But before I start, I always like to start off by stating that I am so proud to be the leader of the Milton Police Department, the men and women of market Police Department, who protect our city through challenging times, through good times, 365 days a year, seven days a week, holidays included. But I also like to extend a thank you to you community. In regards to there has been some challenging times for us. I know that we lost a brother, Officer quarter. We also had a couple officers, shy officer McRae and swaglander. And I like to say that the support, the prayers, the words of comfort, has been definitely appreciated, and that we continue to ask for your prayers and support so that we are able to understand that you know, even though we have challenging times, we know that we have a community that's behind us and Who understands the challenges that we're going through in regards to the work of public safety in our community. So as I begin, we're at right now as a city, as a department, like to always talk about sometimes the numbers, even though I always say this much, the numbers are numbers. They're data sets, but they're not the reality of what you feel from a personal feeling your perspective. Never will I ever want to say that what you feel is not your reality or the truth, and we have to continue to work to address those concerns so that we are all feeling like there is not only someone being heard, but also understand that we are working together in regards to concerns we just had the mid year report out in regards to our statistics, 17% violent crime reduction, 11% property crime I mean 7% property crime reduction, 11% reduction overall for our what we call our part one crimes, which is the more serious crimes. And let me put that in a proper context. This is on top of reductions from 2024 so here we are mid year 2025 again, a data set within that data set, let's talk about a couple other numbers, 50% in regards to fatalities as motor vehicle related. Another almost 50% in regards to carjackings, again, another data set of where we're at, not saying that everything is, you know, great and no more problems, but it also reminds us that we are moving in the right direction now the. Elephant in the room. Yes, homicides are up at the time at the mid year, was 13% happy to say it's 9% now, but I always said this, anything less than zero is unacceptable. Even though we might be slightly above where we were at last year, it's still unacceptable, but as I put out in the press release, some of the concerns that we're seeing that are the under current of what these homicides are about. We're asking for your help, poor conflict resolution, availability of firearms to our youth. These are things that we can work together to impact, to intervene, to intercede. As the police department, we are very good at catching those who are offending at the highest level within our community, we're approximately hovering around 80% clearance rate. But if I said this to my team, I said this to the community, it's not enough to have somebody in custody for such a horrible crime, it's more important to prevent it. Again. One death is one too many. So where do we really see the opportunities as a department collaboration, some things have happened within this journey regards under this administration, working with Office of Community, wellness, safety, working with, I like to say, my sister from another mister Sheriff, Danita. I mean, oh my goodness, Dina ball, that was a slip. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, you know, but those collaborations help in regards to lift of public safety. It helps in regards to knowing that you have individuals who are willing to help along the lift our community based organizations safe and sound in name. You know our political leaders here, our mayor, many of our you know, all the persons, council people, when we work together, we are better together. And so those challenges help us, the things that we already know are before us, staffing issues, which you know, I've been on this project for 29 years, if there's anything I've been recognizing and working with, especially coming from my district, two days to staffing issues. But leaning into the collaborations, leaning into the partnerships, truly is where the rubber meets the road, so that we're able to address when we have flares of crime on Hampton Avenue or during Cinco de Mayo or during Juneteenth, or during Water Street or during, you know, the Puerto Rican fast understand that collaborations and utilizing our resources to specifically address these fill ups so that we are able to show the community that we're listening we're using our resources adequately, is always important. So as I close out, in regards to my savings, again, the data is the data. We are a department that leans into transparency. You see it on our website. We look at it from a standpoint that is important to share where we're at, share how we can all help in this lift. But I was asked this question when I had went before editorial board last week in regards to where do you want your legacy to be? So I start off first saying I really never got into this position and think about a legacy, I look at it from the standpoint of being actionable for the work that's doing what we need now that's supposed to be so far off, but I did answer this, if anything I want to be remembered about the particular leadership bringing to the Milwaukee Police Department. Is he was there. He was there through the good times and the bad. He was there when we had covid 19. That was when I started this journey. He was there when we celebrated the Bucks championship. I see somebody's wearing the shirt there.