Well, like I said, a bunch of newbies aren't going to fix much in the short term; but the year-plus turnaround you mention for getting a recruit to some state of usefulness is an argument for, not against, expediting the process: if it takes that long to get a fresh crop of trained officers in the street where they are needed, all the more reason to get as many in the pipe as possible as soon as possible. There are only so many laterals to be had, and I don't know how many retirees, if any, they