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Jamie Lopez

60:49 - 61:12

“what they did not say on APD was that the 72 is a subset of 962.. And so if you do the math and you include the arrests and the subjects that voluntarily complied, total is 1,085. 72 Divided by 1,085, 6.6% acceptance rate of services. If you do the 72 divided by 962 exclusively, it's 7.5%. But it's effectively a failure.”
Speaker
Jamie Lopez
Community
Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
August 10, 2026

From the transcript

And so more or less, uh, what they did not say on APD was that the 72 is a subset of 962.. And so if you do the math and you include the arrests and the subjects that voluntarily complied, total is 1,085. 72 Divided by 1,085, 6.6% acceptance rate of services. If you do the 72 divided by 962 exclusively, it's 7.5%. But it's effectively a failure.

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