which they need to protect our communities themselves. to restore trust. in the police and in the people. my dad used to say, let me tell you with i value joe. he looked at me and said, don t tell me what you my dad was a well read, high school educated man. a christian man. he said, don t tell me what you value. show me your budgets. and i will tell you what you value. but here is what i value. as soon as i came to office, we inherited a raging pandemic. only 2 million people vaccinated. we need to rebuild our economy. and restore public safety. we understood the risk that communities could face with rising violence during the pandemic. and in a time when state and