04/07/2014
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"So we have to act now. We have got to do something to reverse the nearly 50 percent reduction in overall funding for State and local law enforcement."
"an effective way to protect our citizens and create jobs, that begin rebuilding our economy and our communities, with confidence, would be to restore Federal support for State and local law enforcemen..."
"I believe we should restore the COPS program and the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program to the levels that worked so effectively in the '90s."
"I think that we've done that at great expense to, what I would call, 'hometown security'."