Did the work we did for that study impact this study in any manner?

To my recollection, we didn't really talk specifically about the results of that study in this report, but there was some conversations about just standards in general, honestly, for a couple of the different groups that we worked with on this report, because there's this debate of if we're having trouble getting people, should we change the standards, you know, what we allow people and what the threshold is? to increase the number of recruits that we get.

But at least in policing, what we find is the more people that you let in that are unqualified, those people end up actually costing the department more money if there's some kind of trouble down the way, if there's any legal trouble or just difficulty training someone who has no experience.

So what we've learned through nationwide studies is there are some areas where you can kind of alter some of the standards that exist and be totally fine.

And there are others where people are a little more uncomfortable with it, like drug use within a certain amount of time.

That was disqualifying a lot of candidates.

So some places have shortened the time frame of when your drug use had to have ceased by 10%.

again, are unique to the corrections setting that the officers have to be prepared to live with on a daily basis when they go to work.