One of my top priorities in Congress is to make our streets, our neighborhoods, and our communities safer places to live.
Nothing is more important than the safety of our families.
In Congress, I have supported legislation to help small communities purchase bullet proof vests, secured federal grants for community policing, fought to reduce youth violence, and founded a law enforcement survivor scholarship fund. I was tremendously proud to help pass the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Act, which established a matching grant program for small communities to help them purchase bulletproof vests. I am working to make sure the federal grants to help local law enforcement agencies purchase bulletproof vests get to the officers who need them most. Almost one in five officers in my district are currently serving without a working vest. That problem is worse in our smaller communities, where the number increases to over one in three.