I wish our colleagues around the room could sit in the meetings I have with first responders, paramedics, ambulance, police, fire or nurses. It's very heartbreaking. I get emotional with this, because I feel the weight of the world. We're carrying their hopes that we will do something.
To your point, Mr. Caputo, how many of these incidents go unreported, because they know nothing will happen? Their supervisors will tell them, “Don't bother. It's not worth the paperwork, because nothing's going to happen.” A paramedic was assaulted in the back of an ambulance. She reported it. That person was taken to the police station and was out within hours and back in that paramedic's ambulance the very next day to traumatize this person. I simply can't imagine going to work.
Think of us and the job we do. If we put on our suits, clothes and shoes each and every day knowing we were going to face violence.... We're seeing some of that, but can you imagine, when all you want to do is heal somebody and make our communities safe? It's shocking. It speaks to how we have fallen as a society and, to your point, how we have this revolving door. People can commit some of the most heinous crimes and, within hours or days, be back out on the street doing the same thing.
It's bad.