Frank O'Sullivan: So I gather you're ready to cave to my demands.
Captain Holt: Why would I do that?
Frank O'Sullivan: Give me a break. Your arrests are way down, and your CompStat numbers are terrible.
Captain Holt: I think those numbers look great.
Frank O'Sullivan: No, you don't.
Captain Holt: Well, not those numbers. Obviously, they make it look like we haven't done much at all this week. But a friend of mine told me something unintentionally interesting... focus on what you didn't do. So here's what we didn't do this week. With fewer officers at our disposal and none of them trying to hit CompStat numbers, we made fewer bad arrests. Number of complaints against officers, down 32%. Number of cases thrown out at arraignment for insufficient evidence, down 34%. And here's the most important thing we didn't do. We didn't make the community less safe. Rates of major and violent crime, what actually matters, stayed the same.
Frank O'Sullivan: What are you saying?
Captain Holt: I'm saying the Nine-Nine just became a case study for how a police force can work better with fewer police.
Frank O'Sullivan: Are you actually talking about laying off cops?
Captain Holt: If these numbers persist, I may have no choice.
Frank O'Sullivan: Then I'll just end the Blue Flu.
Captain Holt: Great. That's what I want.
Frank O'Sullivan: Then I won't end the Blue Flu.
Captain Holt: Great. Fewer cops. That's what I want.
Frank O'Sullivan: You just said that... This is a very frustrating conversation.