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What's occurred this year, in 90 days, we had three police officers shot to death on the job, separate incidents, not one of them had their gun out of their holster. These weren't barricaded gunmen, wasn't a bank robbery, these were ambushes. That's in Michigan, three in 90 days, and they never fired a shot, never got their guns out. So, I like to borrow an old line, maybe J.D. Vance would like it, but it's an old marine. Jesse Poehler once said, "We've located the enemy, they have us surrounded." That's how I feel right now. They got us surrounded, but when we see you at a funeral, when we see you writing letters, when we see you hugging babies of fallen officers, I just want you to know that we feel like our arms are around those people. And I can't begin to tell you how much that means to us. The things that you do, we've got right now 16 officers indicted for felonies in Michigan that I think, if given enough money and time, you'd find that they were all innocent, or most of them. We do hire human beings, so I can't explain everything. But when you have that happen, and you see the bad guys just ignore you, and Anthony here will talk more about how it affects the people on the road, but we can't hire anybody, and it's not about money. People want to give money. I know you argue with these people and say, "Just throw money at it, it's stupid." But if we can't get the right candidates, and we can't get them because we're not convincing them at a younger age that this is an honorable job, the honor is gone, I believe in it, I think people here believe in it, I know none of them want to be without police, but we need good people. And so the things that you do, the things that you talk about, qualified immunity, I think most people don't know what it means. We understand it. I know you do. They think with qualified immunity means we can go rob a bank and not get in trouble. Nobody understands that that's not the case. But the things that you do for us, the things that you say, the times that you and I have met before, you spoke at our convention, we did a big screen TV, the things you do really matter, and they do help us. And we're all behind you 100 percent. Thank you. Thank you. So, Jim, one thing we're going to be doing, and we're going to be doing it strongly, and I've wanted to do it and looked at it for a long time, but we have to do it. But immunity for some of these places, you said you have 14 people and you don't believe maybe one or two, I mean, maybe some are guilty of something. But I would bet you a lot of them aren't. And they're going through hell and their pension is going to be gone. Frankly, their family is going to end up being gone, their car, their house, everything. So we want to do immunity. We also want to call for the death penalty for anybody killing a police officer. (audience applauds)

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