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
No one is the lady in the middle there and ive got one how about the end here on the left side. We have two on the left side. Sorry about that. I think that is all well be able to do between now and 3 20. Lets go ahead with the question from over here. Okay. Please. Do i need to standup . Im a student in Global Health law so im taking this class. I would like to for inside out approach to the treatment of this epidemic. Im just wondering why, if we are not already doing it, we are not going from the already existing experiences we have with hiv and that we have had in africa. I watched a clip yesterday on bbc circulating in the social media about how the medical staff were recapturing a patient that had escaped from the facility and it seems to me that the approach needs to be implemented because you could see that the patient didnt understand what they had to be inside the facility and if people dont understand it, they dont realize how much of a danger they are to the community and b
Indoors through the work of everyone here in mr. Greer, his commitment lives on through the work of everyone here. I was always ashamed by virginias abysmal ranking i have always fought for improved Mental Health services and i was always ashamed by virginias abysmal ranking compared to other states for Mental Health funding. Though i would have to admit, Mental Health was never my top priority. I was involved with economic element, education, transportation, Public Safety, environmental issues. There were many things that were at the top of my keep. My heap. I promise you i would give anything to not be in this position today. When my world changed forever last november, i knew i had to do something to make a change to prevent future tragedies. My family had been dealing with my sons illness for some years, but i never truly understood what gus was going through or how he suffered. I determined to devote my life and efforts to change the law to reduce the likelihood that such tragedie