Impacted staffing and the safety of corrections offices. Let me just finish by offering two recommendations to the committee to address this growing problem. First, i believe that congress can and should fund federal state and local task forces to focus on gangs. They could be modelled after the joint Terrorism Task forces and should have a Single National and coordinated infrastructure led primarily bay federal agency with significant input from local departments. These Regional Gang Task forces will need the full spectrum of support from centralized intelligence sharing and analysis to the prosecution in the u. S. Attorneys offices. Where federal grand juries and firm sentencing have the greatest impact on disrupting the gangs. The senate has previously enacted legislation to accomplish this purpose. But it was never approved by the house. Senator mccaskill, you mentioned that sometimes we have an impossible job. My last recommendation i urged congress to act to balance Citizens Righ
Interesting description of a problem that i think plagues so many inner cities and from my standpoint really one of the contributing factors of this is one of the Top Priorities of this committee is securing our borders. This is what i think our 25th . 25th hearing on some aspect of border security. Now, the title of the hearing was border and security the rise of ms13 and other Transnational Criminal Organizations. Reading through the testimony, it looks like were going to be focusing an awful lot on ms13 which is obviously in the news today. And ill let the witnesses tell the stories, but it is kind of interesting the history of ms13. Originally formed out of immigrants coming from el salvador, the war there in california, Southern California area. And then based on problems, those members being deported to Central America, the organizations grew and tliefd in Central America, now were seeing them come back sometimes in the form of unaccompanied children. I did send a letter yesterda
Interesting description of a problem that i think plagues so many inner cities and from my standpoint really one of the contributing factors of this is one of the Top Priorities of this committee is securing our borders. This is what i think our 25th . 25th hearing on some aspect of border security. Now, the title of the hearing was border and security the rise of ms13 and other Transnational Criminal Organizations. Reading through the testimony, it looks like were going to be focusing an awful lot on ms13 which is obviously in the news today. And ill let the witnesses tell the stories, but it is kind of interesting the history of ms13. Originally formed out of immigrants coming from el salvador, the war there in california, Southern California area. And then based on problems, those members being deported to Central America, the organizations grew and tliefd in Central America, now were seeing them come back sometimes in the form of unaccompanied children. I did send a letter yesterda
President Donald Trumps National Security adviser Michael Flynn stepped down late last night less than one month into his tenure. It follows growing concern over his communication with the Russian Ambassador and whether he misled the vice president. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has the latest. Developing now another blow for president trumps another blow for president trumps halted travel ban. A federal judge in virginia issued an injunction to block enforcement of the ban in the commonwealth. The order bans people from 7 nations for 120 days. Its not being enforced anywhere right now as it awaits proceedings in court. The white house is reportedly looking into options for a possible new draft of that order. The search ends for a wanted rape suspect in virginia. Police say Ronald Herrera contreras is not only in the country illegally, the 18 year old is also wanted for sexually assaulting another teen 6 months ago. A Fairfax County detective working with a Regional Gang Task force recognized c
Hours ago. Right now the south bound lanes are blocked as the cleanup continues. Larry tonight, two crime fighters accused of committing crimes. The Prince Georges County Police Officers were indicted in separate cases this afternoon. Maryland bureau chief brad bell broke the story on twitter and is live in palmer park with the latest. Brad . Brad yeah, this agency is not proud of these charges. But they are proud of the fact they say that the cases show that they can police themselves. The case against Corporal William diaz has to do with his work on an antiprostitution squad. We have gone along on raids the squads have conducted. Its alleged that diaz was doing more than making arrests. He is accused of having relations with a prostitute while on duty. Thats not all. He was alerting at least one prostitute when the unit was going to be enforcing in certain areas. Presumably for her to avoid brad decorated 14year veteran corporate George Merkel is accused of assault against a homeless