even if I was the smartest person in the room, which I hope I never am, because then what am I there to learn?

But even if I was the smartest person in the room, it doesn't mean that I am the person that's going to be able to get that through to someone or that someone's going to explain it a better way that gets us to where we're going.

So I always view my office as a team.

We are a team with our police officers. We are a team in my office, my staff, all of that. We are a, and a hot-up.

You trying to be a hot-up.

You trying to be a street cop?

Grace Simpson, tell us who you are and why we're together today. Well, we connected at the Street Cup

conference in Nashville. And when I was there, I was there with the deputy from my county and my fiance is also a police officer.

So they convinced me that they went the first two years ago as well.

And we're like, this is something you have to go to.

You'll love it, you'll, you will connect with it.

And so they convinced me to go to Nashville.

And in Nashville, I was outside getting my coffee and I walked by you and wanted to just introduce myself because I felt like I had a,

it was maybe a minority of the type of people that were there. And then we ended up here.

Did you like the conference?

It was awesome.

It was so cool to see how my officers get inspired. You know, what is it that makes them want to be

police officers and continue to go out and work every single day for, you know,

whether that be different types of approaches different ways to talk to people and it was really

helpful for me to understand you know why my officers do what they do on the road so why are they

asking this question so I can articulate on a stand to a jury of 12 people that have no idea why an officer would do something, why they would do it. Because I've seen juries just go south because the officer

clearly wasn't scared because he approached on the on the driver's side you

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