I appreciate the opportunity to get up here and have a discussion on this important legislation. As you mentioned, I've been here before. I have to say in my opening remarks that in the law enforcement community we are encouraged that the government is looking more towards what we feel are victims' rights and victims' roles in this type of legislation. I want to thank everybody for the opportunity to come up here. We feel that this is very important to maintain public confidence, and confidence from the law enforcement community.
Although my time is short, we heard from Ms. Hancox, and I'm going to reiterate some of the things she talked about, and why this is important to the law enforcement community, and important for public confidence. Again, being in a job that is one of the most regulated jobs in the country, law enforcement, with the most oversight, we know first-hand how important it is that not only the optics—