an expanded vaccine mandate for all city employees. this does include police officers. already the city s largest police union says it plans to challenge this in court, echoing the battles we ve seen between cities and police unions in a number of areas of the country. in los angeles, the county sheriff said he s not going to enforce a vaccine deadline that was supposed to take effect today. the issue has become so politicized, there are entire groups of employees who are willing to be fired and laid off rather than getting vaccinated. i don t want posto be in a posin to lose 10% of my workforce overnight. l.a. officials announced a delay until december 18th. the city council has to approve this. meantime in seattle, 98% of the police department was either vaccinated or granted an exemption by monday s deadline. even there, the police union president is warning of staffing
that s around june of 2011. l.a. officials revealed details in 2008. in 1999 new york released information showing 17,000 kits had accumulated in that state, clint van zandt joins me now to talk about this. the numbers are staggering in the horrible crimes. why does it take so long for police to get the kits out for processing? let s start with los angeles? almost 5,000 have been sitting on the shelves. what the police labs will tell you is they re short of money, they re short of personnel. they re constantly asked to prioritize cases left and right. this is one of the most horrific crime society. to say these cases can be handled, as you know, many police departments are now