Whenever you have a situation like this going on, management has to rise to the occasion. You have to have some consequences for this kind of behavior.

Every time we talk to police chiefs, wherever we are, this is a problem and the problem is growing more acute.

That is clearly a concern, and police chiefs are very uneasy about that possibility. The question is, do we keep our radio cars empty or hire people who a few years ago we wouldn't have hired? It is very problematic.

It's totally inappropriate conduct for a law-enforcement officer to engage in, and it casts a very bad image on the entire department.

It's a big challenge for new management to have to come in and handle the crisis. They now have 28 days to certify all the data. It's not clear they can get everything done that they have to get done.

This strikes me as a trial balloon, ... Management may be getting tired of the harping on the dividend so if they give investors a quarter of the cash to shut people up, then the company can get back to business.