We hear about these things, but we're wondering, okay, if that's all true, why are other cities dealing with it?

Is Spokane just so uniquely situated, economically and geographic, and otherwise, that we have this problem that's insurmountable and all you citizens should just ignore what you're seeing with your own eyes every day as you go downtown.

I don't think we should.

No one has said that.

So it's not insurmountable.

About three weeks ago, we had a joint meeting with, the mayor, city council, county commissioners, where we had a presentation from Sheriff Nowels, Chief Hall, and talked about how Spokane is a fentanyl trafficking hub from Southern California up through tri cities, from Montana.

We're it, I mean, when they discovered, really, I think the largest and only pill machine of its kind in the western United States, it was in Spokane.

And so we have to recognize that.

And there's been a lot of levers we've been pulling to get a handle on this, including which was on pause for a while from the federal government, prosecutor in the US Attorney's office to work with the city to investigate and charge, traffickers to stop it at the source, from from it coming in.

And so, we do have to recognize that.

Yes.

Like, this is not insurmountable.

But, there is the growth of challenges here that with our growth, it's not being commensurate to, I think, a lot of what we've seen, on the streets and trying to wrap our arms around that and it feels like we're catching up.

But I do think there's a lot of good things on the horizon that we are going to start to see.

A reverse of the trend.