Patrick Leahy actually said...

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 enf...

an effective way to protect our citizens and create jobs, that begin rebuilding our economy and our communities, with confidence, would be t...

But what we are now seeing are real declines in the size of police forces.

I think that we've done that at great expense to, what I would call, 'hometown security'.