In California, a 12-year-old video has resurfaced of Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood claiming it is better financially for officers to kill, rather than wound, a suspect.

Sheriff Donny Youngblood: “Which way do you think is better financially—to cripple him or kill him—for the county?”

Unidentified: “Kill him.”

Sheriff Donny Youngblood: “Absolutely, because if you cripple him, we’ve got to take care of him for life, and that cost goes way up.”

The video has gone viral and caused widespread controversy. Sheriff Donny Youngblood is up for re-election. A 2015 investigation by The Guardian found Kern County had the highest number of police killings per capita of any county in the United States—with at least 79 people killed by police between 2005 to 2015.