José E. Serrano: “I want to thank you for your testimony and for your support of the COPS program.”

Very interesting. Well, then that throws out like half of my questions here.

An increase in funding of the scale I recommend might impinge on other priorities.

this is a very important area, one that we take seriously, this committee, and we will continue to do that kind of work in a bipartisan fashion, and I mean that sincerely.

We will obviously be watching this closely in the upcoming months.