Stephen, welcome to Lockton. Man, absolute pleasure to have you on the show. The audience and I love

former law enforcement officials on the show. I think it's great, especially with the former

inmate law enforcement officer perspective. Thanks for having me. It's quite an honor to be here.

I have to following you for quite some time. This is like, you know, pinch myself type moment.

Yeah, well, I appreciate it, man. I'm glad you reached out. I remember when you, I think you emailed me and I shot it to my brother right away. I was like, we need them on the show. Oh, wow. Because you were a cop during those, like, early, you know, days. It was a whole different world. It's not anything like what it was now, policing, and even in New York City,

that one of the, what is it, the largest police force in it?

Pretty much, yeah. I mean, I think Los Angeles Sheriff's Department has the largest sheriff's department in the world, like Homicide Bureau, the population in Los Angeles, but New York City, I mean, yeah, we're averaging since maybe my dad was a cop in the

70s, 30,000, you know, like law enforcement, people with the title law enforcement, I mean,

because we have civilians that are called PAAs, police administrative aid. I don't know if they

throw them in there, but we average 30-something to 36,000 police officers and then when a PD.

And those aides are the ones that do the phones and the comms.

Pretty much the phones, you know, PAAs do the paperwork if your car was stolen.

I don't think it's different now, but when you come in to make a police report,

you know, physically yourself walking in and say, hey, my car was stolen or I have a crime

report, they will sit you down and take the report with you. And then it gets signed off by a supervisor

to make sure it's an actual crime. So if there's a question, they'll go to a supervisor and say,

hey, is this actually a crime? You know, some people, like a lost license plate.

It used to be if your real license plate was missing, it was a crime, criminal,

a petty lossony.

But now, then they made it, no, it's lost property.

So someone can steal your plate and get around for a while and it's not a crime.

Then eventually years later, it had to be two plates for it to be a crime missing.

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