But I think that if we're going to be investing in anything, especially with social services, I think we need to be really be focusing on this. And I'm just curious. I was just trying to pick your brain because you're on the other end of that spectrum.
And I was just curious, based on your career, what you thought. Well, when I did anti-terrorism, what I recognized is I can search for a terrorist for 20 years and never find one. But I've never searched for one.
I will never find one. And when you apply that logic, because right now everybody wants immediate success so that they can promote or get a raise or whatever. But we're talking about whether it's terrorism or anti-recidivism.
These are long processes to determine whether you're even successful in getting somebody. It's a three-year tell. You have to monitor somebody for three years.
And if they don't commit a crime, then they're considered somebody who hasn't recidivated. That's a long time to monitor somebody to see if you're successful. And because they're not successful, bureaucrats are impatient.
I've got to get a success so I can get a promotion. And that's a problem. What we found in L.A. County is siloing of bureaucracies is a big challenge.
Nobody wants to give up authority. But you've got to get mental health working with public health, and they've got to work with the Sheriff's Department, and they've got to work with other agencies that can build that with that success. And that's very hard because everybody wants the credit, but you have to give up some of your power.
