Steve Israel: “I just want to shed some light on some of the rhetoric we've heard. Ripe from the committee report, FBI field…”

“I just want to shed some light on some of the rhetoric we've heard. Ripe from the committee report, FBI field investigative resources used for criminal investigative matters have decreased 29 percent from nearly 6,200 agents to 4,400 agents over the same period. The committee is concerned over the decline in FBI criminal investigative resources, particularly in light of the recent announcement by the FBI that violent crime in communities across the Nation, murders, robberies, forcible rapes and aggravated assaults, rose for the second straight year. Why would we want to cut the FBI $90 million when crime is increasing?”