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I think part of the genius of the JTTF was if you needed help, you didn't have to go find somebody from another agency. They were on the task force. And literally all you did was walk over a row. You had their home phone, their address, you know, their email, everything.

And, everybody was pretty quick to drop whatever they were doing and help you with whatever you needed to do.

Part of it is how the FBI set it up. You know, they selected agencies that were probably going to be a real net-win for the FBI. And those agencies sent us some of their sharpest people and people that were really good at working with anybody, anywhere, any time to include, you know, out in the community. So I think the personalities meshed so well that it didn't seem like work and people weren't tripping over credit or egos for the most part.

It was it was impressive to see when it worked really, really well because people were just interested in getting the case put together, figuring out what was going on, what we need to stop it, how we stop it, and how we prosecute it successfully. And that that was kind of why it all worked.

I think the big selling point we always had was: everyone is very fluent in their own town and their own city in their own region. But in law enforcement, that fluency tends to end in the … at the intelligence line. And what they don't understand is that there's a lot that goes on in the background, especially with a changing population. They don't really understand who lives in their areas and where those people are from and what they're all about. And they have so much that they can't stay up on world affairs. So the JTTF can fill that void. The SAC can bring in the chiefs and the sheriffs and the people that run the highway patrols and brief them. And then we can we can give certain people within that agency clearances. The JTTF would facilitate that so that they could be in the loop on cases and understand the importance.