All right. I hope you enjoyed part one of that conversation that was very much focused on the military. We delved into some larger issues.

My second interview, Herman Lopez, he's actually a New York Times reporter that is now part of the editorial board.

And actually, at the end of our conversation about policing in America, and he's been on

the criminal justice beat for a decade in various news organizations.

So I think you'll really appreciate the expertise that he provides and, frankly, a very

sober and dispassionate explanation of, you know, what are the explanations as to why, as to why we have so many unsolved murders?

But I do want to make one quick point about D.C.

There's an interesting little various generational divides, and the question is, is DC safer today than ever before or not?

Well, some of this, by the way, depends on how old you are. So, for instance, I moved here,

I moved to DC in 1990. That's when I went to school, GW, moved here in the June of 1990. And in fact, my first week was when there was the whole Marian Barry, you know, had the crack cocaine bust. And that was just consumed the city's politics and was consuming.

And it was sort of, and in the 90s in general, it was a low point for D.C. as a community,

as a, and it was sort of really, so I look at D.C. today.

And while if you compare D.C.'s, you know, the security of D.C. today to say,

10 years ago, you feel as if,

things are not as good as they were.

If you're somebody like me and you compare to where DC was and to the 90s,

you think, what do you guys?

This is, you don't understand.

More parts of DC today are great places to hang out and all of those things than ever before.

So if you're wondering in some ways why you're hearing different descriptions of D.C., do take note of how old the person is that's telling you this.

I think if you're somebody who's been in D.C. for the last 15 or 20 years, you have one, you know, it's all depends on where you, where your baseline was, right? And if that was your baseline, it feels as if D.C. is a little less secure than it was 15 or 20 years ago. If you're someone like me and remembered when the waterfront was not the best place to be, that where the Nationals Park is,

and when you had to go get your car inspected,

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