That's a very good question. Currently, it's not a secret that many of our communities at times are in next to third-party management, where funding in a lot of our communities is limited, with so many mouths to feed and so little to go around. I think the priorities of a lot of our community leaders are the issues that we raised earlier—poverty, housing, and additional social issues—and having this type of funding made available would allow them to lessen their focus on the larger priorities by knowing that adequate funding can be provided to create those relationships and to better respond to the ongoing incidents of violence.
Our partners, I'm sure, are struggling from day to day with the limited funding they have. They struggle with staffing, minimal staffing, and normally when police need our partners, it's mostly after normal working hours. Additional staff would be wonderful—people we could rely on in the event that we're called to an incident of violence. Those partners are critical for us.
For years policing has always been the hammer and the nail, and we continue to hammer down when we would really rather not contribute to the number of our people who are currently incarcerated. I think a conservative estimate is that we make up approximately 4% of this population nationally, but we are grossly overrepresented in our prison population. I could see this actually impacting the number of people we would be incarcerating if we had that ability to intervene on the front end through education, through programming, and being able to convince our community members that violence shouldn't be accepted. But that's only going to happen through education and a belief that this is no longer acceptable. We need to work together to minimize it, and ultimately, hopefully, make it go away.