This was preventable, and we must ensure nothing like this ever happens again.
Esteban Torres
The Public Record
We are going to walk down, and I will be there with you. We are going to walk down to the Capitol.
On December 19th, 2022, former President Donald Trump, the leader of the Republican Party, said those fateful words to his supporters, and they complied.
My concern here lies with those who are making decisions at the very top, you know, how is--how is information trickling down to rank-and-file officers and how intelligence is being shared among entities.
I take my security and the security of the people that visit here and that work here very seriously.
If we do not have proper communication now as a division and, you know, your proposal is to elevate it to a bureau, and that does not seem to be happening, and I hear the K-9 Unit is not receiving their 16 monthly hours of training, we need to expedite the recommendation to make sure that, if the division is not working and we are going to move it into the bureau that the bureaucrats, as my colleague stated, move in that direction.
Oversight of the police, including the Office of Inspector General, should be a bipartisan issue.
I want to see a process, a real process on how we reach out to local jurisdictions.





