Prince Ogbang Jr. testifies on youth arrests, mentorship, and community investment

We happy.

I mean, it's better.

It's better.

It's still a process.

It's still a process, and we're still healing.

But it's a lot better from where we've come from.

We're cautiously optimistic.

I am too.

But one of the things I will say all the time and whenever I have a chance, when it comes to every level where you underserve, like things not dealing properly, it's just sometimes if we

spend a little extra in that particular as a preventative.

And then you will save people's lives because prevention is better than anything.

And those kids, if we deal with the level in school, junior high school, elementary school, they will not be having issue when it comes to the high school level.

Can I piggyback off of that?

And that's the more reason I hate to keep beating a dead drum.

We have to build long-term relationships with our clients, whether they're adults or children.

But when you break that relationship because somebody went,

on to another place to go work because they have to feed their own families.

That interrupts that, right?

So we keep going back to that grain of sand you keep putting in your hand and it keeps coming through because we're not being properly compensated.

All that you're saying is very real to us, and we take our jobs very seriously.

Officers don't want to leave probation, but they have to.

Clients have cried.

Clients have cried because they didn't want to leave their probation officer got changed over and over and over again.

Families have gotten frustrated because the probation officers are not staying.

All that's what you're saying is very relevant, but if you can't sustain the relationship because they're moving on, what are we doing?