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>> trey: you know, john, there's a tendency i think of people wanting to blame congress for almost everything. i'm going to resist that tendency because the overwhelming majority of crime is state and local. so what realistically can you as a congressman or the body itself do if 90% of the crime is state and local? what can and should congress's role be? >> i think we could help state and local governments by providing more fund, like cops grants is a good example to pay for more cops on the streets but have ties with that and say look we will give you this money but your police department has...

Police officers and the son of a police officer, the sacrifice that they make. and i think about their safety every day and i tell them my proposals on gun violence are in part to make them safe. but i also recognize the experience in america, especially for young black men in the fear they have of police because of abuses against that community. and i have a perspective that i think can reverse that. work, with others to reverse that. first, here's what i would do. here's what we can do as a country. when it comes to community oriented police grants, cops grants, i would only allow those gran...

County sheriff's department the. we have some 87 school resource officers throughout the schools in richland county. everyday these deputies do a fantastic job. they work very closely with the students, and the faculty and the parents, and they develop a great relationship. monday's actions by deputy fields was not typical of the job that i expect them to do, and the parents expect them to do, and the students expect them to do, and the community expects them to do. by and large, we have great s.r.o.s. we get cops grants. we get cops grants to assist us in putting the school resource officers ...