Harry Reid: “About the bulletproof vests, that is very important to the people of Nevada. Why? Because some people believe that…”

“About the bulletproof vests, that is very important to the people of Nevada. Why? Because some people believe that Nevada, is a State that is very rural in nature. That is not true. Nevada is the most urban State in America because 90 percent of the people live in the metropolitan Reno or Las Vegas areas. Ten percent live outside of Reno or Las Vegas. Those 10 percent, in Winnemucca and Lovelock, all through Nevada--those little police departments cannot afford bulletproof vests. As a result of that, we have people who are hurt and not able to do their work as well. Some of them have to buy their own vests and usually they are not very good. What the legislation the Senator from Vermont has pushed, and we have gotten a little money on some of his legislation, we need to make sure that in rural America, rural Nevada, in places such as Ely and Pioche and police officers in these rural places in Nevada get the same protection against the criminal element that the people who are police officers in the big cities have.”