Despite the heroic efforts on the local level by our sheriffs and our chiefs and our deputies and our officers, this is not a challenge that we have, by and large, been succeeding at defeating. Now it sounds like it's different here in Kirksville, and that's great, but we have been losing ground in most places.

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