Our security. And mr. Carroways attendance would be important to us. A lot of my questions are for him. Same here. I did want to ask the Ranking Member. The chairman and i discussed this. He was trying to avoid a subpoena. And what we were going to try to work out. I mentioned it earlier in my opening, is get, i agree, we really do need carroway here. I asked the chairman to set a date certain for him to come in so we can get him in here to ask the question. Youre absolutely right. I would agree with mr. Lynch, if you would, ask me in the beginning. I mentioned it. We talked about it with the chairman. I would be supportive of a subpoena if necessary. If its needed. I want to voice my support for that, as well. And the fact that the gentleman is not here. Sort of feeds into the whole narrative here that we have a bureaucracy not responding to the problem thats out there. I want to thank the witnesses who are here. I appreciate your valuable testimony. And its already been helpful. As i
Police beat where i live. I need to know my neighbors better. They actually told us they want to get out and get to know each other. Were looking at increasing Community Resident engagement in our highcrime neighborhoods, activating neighborhood associations who have been latent for many years. We have free cleanup assistance Tree Planting beautification projects for up to 5,000 grants. Theres so many things our city is offered and what i have found in my presentations in those neighborhoods in long beach, those neighbors dont even know these programs exist. So our job as a city is to go door to door and activate those residents to come to the Association Meetings and to begin to reform their neighborhoods from the inside out. We all know that unemployment is an issue as well. We overlaid the map of unemployment rates with poverty. Those same census track high poverty, high levels of unemployment. How do we develop a strategy that we go door to door and ensure our unemployed residents