B
And, in fifty-one and fifty-two, the police came to the high school where I was and were telling us how to recognize when kids were on drugs, how to recognize the pushers --
A
Yeah.
B
-- outside the one entrance, that they were giving their drugs away in order to get the kids started, and so on, and so on. So it's a problem that's been around for over forty years, and we're just really, uh, uh, now, trying to, uh, figure out how to cope with the problem because it has grown so huge.
A
Yeah, there's a, there's a, uh, a song that I know which says, you know, tha-, it's like, in, uh, nineteen eighty-eight, nineteen eighty-nine, the local, state, and federal governments spent the least amount of money on crime in America, and, uh, their figures, I think are too, so I mean it's like, compared to, you know, compared to, weapons or stuff like that, I mean, you're spending nothing on, on crime in the country itself. What you're doing is, you, you know, it's like, you have other things, you know, you have the AIDS we're going to solve, try to solve --
B
Uh-huh.
A
-- the AIDS problem while, while, you know, some people are getting killed here and there and then.