“Think of de-escalation as a guardrail that helps slow down a situation...” — Kevin Faulconer Quote

Think of de-escalation as a guardrail that helps slow down a situation, so both officers and San Diegans go home safely.

When residents feel like they can talk to the police, officers can stop crime before it starts.

There's no substitute for an in-classroom experience.

After struggling with homelessness like other areas across the state, we bucked the status quo to make San Diego the only big city in California where homelessness went down, not up.

As a kid, I got exposed to city government at an early age. I'm sure that rubbed off on me.

The guys who feel unfulfilled by the previous season, they go home in the offseason and they work harder to get better and better, and they come back with a vengeance.

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

When you have to stay late, you stay late, and when you don't have to stay late, you go home. But, you do whatever it takes to get the job done that day.

We train in the mornings, and then I go home and rest or sleep, and usually I go for a meal with Abel of a night, as we're the two with no family here, so we tend to hang around together.