What does “public safety” mean? To elected officials, the words often mean buying or managing buildings - like jails. To people in bureaucracies, it’s all about money…for it refers to the Public Safety department; so its about budgets, police and equipment.

From childhood we learn what safe or safety means from our protectors. So we have a bias and this bias pre-conditions how we see the world.

Let’s chat about where our money goes as different from where we think it goes. Times have changed - and so do the services that used to exist. There are big gaps, and those gaps are often unseen - for the words used before do not match reality today.