On the issue. Other witnesses include the sheriff of Dallas County florida was also the chair of the marjorie was actual Public Safety commission. From yesterdays, this is two hours. Morning, i want to call this hearing order. The title of this hearing is examining state and federal regulations for an against violence. I want to welcome everybody to the hearing room. I should surely want to thank our witnesses for taking the time for your testimony. And in particular i want to give a shout out to max and tom and their families and the other families of the tragedies or attending here and for just your unbelievable dedication, turning your tragedy into hopefully some positive action that temperament tragedy or other families, its just remarkable what so many of the families have done in reaction to so many of these tragedies which really back to 1998 is where we really had, so the first elected. Members of 56, i know in your testimony, if youre talking about 710 shootings at columbine i
First, i thinkshould be clear that we believe the systems are safe. One of the safest mode of travel we have available to us in this day and age. Real also believe very strongly there are steps that need to be taken in order to address the safety, not just of the general public, but the employees who work for these diseases. There is no question that when youre dealing with an aging infrastructure and the needs that are required to maintain that infrastructure, employees will be working in Hazardous Conditions that can make for an unsafe situation, but there are steps that the Transit Agency has taken. I know from my own experience we focus closely on making sure that our operators have appropriate training, tools, protocols and place to map the safety of these employees. But the reality is, as long as it will take to fix this problem will require more workers to work environments where it could be a more dangerous situation that if it were invested in good repair. Well, thank you for
Incident remains under investigation this much is known has cause real pain for mr. Browns family as well as residents of ferguson and others across the country. Evens of unfolding have sparked a muchneeded National Discussion on police strategy, Law Enforcement response and race relations. The purpose of todays hearing is not to explore what happened in ferguson that day but other judicial system the purpose of todays hearing is to examine the effectiveness of programs for state and local police with surplus military equipment and exercises for planning and training. The issues to there not just about ferguson that affect communities across the nation. Says retake the deep dive into local lawenforcement agencies to explore the value of these programs to police the communities they serve, and taxpayers. Lets start by a thinking senator Mitch Paschal and her staff for cochairing this with me and our call date from missouri has spent a lot of time in ferguson we look forward to hearing a
Enforcement experts and others on whether the police responsible was correct, measured and appropriate. In thinking about these issues well be discussing today, i cant help but think about how in my own stair learning all over again the value of our Police Spending more time outside of their police cars, working, talking every day with people in the community, and engaging them in positive ways. As you might imagine, this helps build the bonds of trust and strengthen communities in the way that is armed personnel, vehicles and assault weapons never can. Weve convened in helping state and local police do their important work. Since 1997, federal agencies supplied over 5 billion in Surplus Department of defense supplied and equipment to Law Enforcement. In addition, both the departments of justice and Homeland Security Administration Grant programs that also can pay for militarystyle gear such as armored vests and vehicles. In light of the events in ferguson, our committee has reviewed t
Interpretation would have serious effects on Small Businesses and other legitimate business conductsuch as routine maintenance and disposal of inventer to. Shy of of offer an opportunity for response . The government has come in for a fair amount of teasing for this case, and so don you know, thats one side of the story. [laughter] heres the other side of the story. That the fisherman is a commercial fisherman. Out in the gulf of mexico and he was visited by a state inspector, and the stay inpicket juror looked at his load of fish and said, gees you got a bunch of group here below the limit that you are allowed to catch, and so i am going to instruct you to take house undersized grouper aside in the box and tape up the box and then when you come back to shore you have to turn it in and well have a proceeding whether you are obi organize vie laying the law lamp the commercial fisherman did after the state inspector left was to instruct one of his employees to take that crate of fish and