Chief Reuben Ortega in extending a most hearty welcome to all of you to our city and state. We have just been favored with numbers from the International Children's Choir who have sung so beautifully for us. We congratulate them and their leader, Kathy Sorensen, for the excellence of their performance. I have been impressed by the fact that children and dogs are pretty much the same all over the world. I believe that everywhere law enforcement officers have shared a common concern in a regard for children.
Dogs are something else.
My brief message today is a hope, even a prayer, that law enforcement efforts and officials all over the world could be more family friendly. Our nations will not be stronger than our families. This is because a strong family is the basic unit of our society. It is in the families and the churches of our society that the values of honesty, decency, morality, and respect are taught. Your work will never become easier until violence decreases.