We need to be out there supporting them each and every day.

We sure do.

I...

Listen, we, we need all your help.

Thanks all for WABC.

We're getting our message out there.

We're getting it out there.

Scott?

We need to be out there supporting them each and every day.

We sure do.

I...

Listen, we, we need all your help.

Thanks also to WABC.

We're getting our message out there.

We're getting it out there.

Scott?

You detectives are very good at that.

Yeah, we have the top-notch detectives, the greatest detectives in the world.

How has technology helped? Oh, tremendous.

We're doing with about 5,200 detectives right now.

We're down.

We used to have 7,000.

But the men and women are out there in blue.

I will cherish

Yes,

the officers were out there doing their job like they do every day, and cautiously.

May I say, OK, so nobody wants to hurt anybody.

Nobody wants to shoot anybody.

That's not what we do.

We protect lives every day.

And it's a shame what happened.

Why don't they face the reality that parole boards are not social workers, their job is to protect the public? What about that issue, Scott?

Yes,

the officers were out there doing their job like they do every day, and cautiously.

May I say, OK, so nobody wants to hurt anybody.

Nobody wants to shoot anybody.

That's not what we do.

We protect lives every day.

And it's a shame what happened.

Why don't they face the reality that parole boards are not social workers, their job is to protect the public? What about that issue, Scott?

all-time

low? There's 2,000 more cops Jessica Tisch put on since she's been on.

The bottom line, we're always going to say we're low, right? I mean, I had 7,000 detectives at one time, and now I have about 5,000.

It's a little concerning what's going on.

Out there.

And when you don't believe in policing and you don't have a leader of the city, Mayor Mondami, believing in policing and believing in what we do every day, what the men and women do every day, that's a problem.

Basically, he was speaking about come to protest.

How many officers, whether it's your officers, the detectives, or foot soldiers, regular officers, or sergeants, how many are we losing? I don't know the

First, how did you get involved with, uh, Regarding Van Halen III? Did Chaz reach out and just say, "You're our guy," or what happened?

No, that, that was my pitch to Chaz.

Um, you know, this was back when we were, uh, still going through the Van Halen catalog here on, uh, And the Podcast Will Rock, and, um, we were, uh, coming up on it.

I think we just had, uh, one song left for, uh, the Van Halen III album, so, um, I, uh, pitched to Chaz, you know.

That's really, um, I think, a, a good topic for the Regarding series, and I'm pretty passionate about the album, as you know.

So, um, I, I said, you know, "Once we get through, uh, Van Halen III on, uh, this show, let's, uh, let's do the entire season on that." So Chaz was gracious enough to take me up on it, but, uh, you know, from there, it really kind of went in dif- different directions that I didn't anticipate.

So I, I had known going into it that it might be kind of fun to tinker a little with, uh, some of the songs, so I, uh, reached out to our friend Kevin Brown and, uh, asked him, uh, to help out with some edits.

All right.

Mm-hmm.

It was a barricaded prisoner who was an e- emotionally disturbed person.

He, he was a real hero, along with other detectives there that day.

They had a f- a family upstairs, an older family upstairs that barricaded themselves in a room 'cause they were afraid.

This, this individual was, was shooting.

Shooting at the gas line on the stoves.

They went in there to take action, and unfortunately, you know, what happened was, uh, you know, he di- he didn't make it.

Right.