cannot take off the public records. blog sites with inappropriate communications easily at someone's fingertips and the ability to gather more disgruntles to create momentum and escalate potential threat situations. what about social networking? well, it may be easy to convince the judicial member not to be social networking. it's a whole other ball of wax to try to convince their teenagers or their grandchildren or even their law clerks. when unintentionally they don't mean to, but they may be communicating on their own social network and releasing information about our protectees and where they may be. what happens if a law clerk just unintentionally puts out, hey, i can get together friday. the judge is out of town up at his vacation home in wyoming. information we don't want out. so social networking in itself is such a challenge to us. our very heart of our democracy allows for that freedom of

speech and we in law enforcement face the challenge of how to control, contain and react. internet sites that post information. remember that once in place, it's very difficult to get that information off. so you may be protecting an individual that previously wasn't under protection detail but all their information on internet site when somebody wasn't thinking is now stays and remains on an internet site and we now put them under protection. let's face it. the ease of getting information through technology just gets easier every day. we must continue together to tackle technology issues as they relate to protective ops. it is only our synergy across law enforcement, both at the local/federal level to look at innovative ways for us to share ideas so they can put things in place to make sure that we're protecting not only the individuals and the court process, but the court process itself. some of you may recall and i'd like to highlight, we had a project, project 365. security starts with you.

we worked with nsa to release those dvds last year, a 20-minute dvd discussing judicial threats, how judges can react and deal with those threats. what needs to be reported in and what we ask of them. it was really developed for the federal judiciary and then distributed to every sheriff nationwide via the association. and we appreciate the efforts that we jointly would be able to deliver that to you. i am pleased to announce today that the second iteration of 365 has been completed and we are in the process of copying and producing the dvds and once again, the association this morning agreed to release those dvds for us to sheriffs across the nation. and i appreciate those efforts. this series is a series of nine vignettes. addressing various security topics such as how to safely commute to work on a regular basis. providing suggestions and ideas. there's a very big focus on internet security because, of course, what we've learned,

common sense is that part of protecting and ensuring the protectee is educating them and making them aware of what risks when they are on the internet. how they can control and contain information better is all about education and awareness. residential security. you know, most of us recognize that sometimes for our judicial members, one of the greatest risks is actually off site. we secure the building. no other protection units besides the sheriffs and the marshals actually take the protectees and then introduce the criminal elements on a daily basis in the courthouse. we've mastered security there. we have shared security standards. we have shared methodologies of how to disperse and locate individuals in a courthouse to control egress and ingress and contraband coming into the courthouses. and now we must deal with off-site residential security because of what's coming to us in the technology and internet and information is now we have to be concerned about their off-site residential security. so there's a lot in these

vignettes that deal with off-site security. we're hoping that in the process of producing this dvd and working with the association to distribute it that it will help you on your judicial security awareness programs. i hope that you had an opportunity. i'll ask how many attended the u.s. marshals presentation yesterday afternoon? i'm breaking the stove pipe. i won't know so you can actually just raise your hand and make me feel good. we discussed methods of sharing threatening communications regarding public officials. we continued to want to get and use an association is so good to us about allowing us forums to put this information out there. and so we want to use every opportunity in your meetings to bring in current information. this was hosted by our national center for judicial securities. some of you may be aware of it. ncjs. they established the ncjs to offer a wide range of support services across municipal, city, county, state and even federal

and international jurisdictions on judicial security. security operations and the protection of members of the judiciary and public officials. our areas of expertise that you can capitalize that are available to you on a daily basis include threat psychology and management, cybersecurity, intelligence interviewing, terrorist mind-sets, courthouse design, new security technologies on security systems, protection details and risk mitigation. our goal is to share with you the best security practices across the government and the industry. and to include the initiatives that you yourself are taking on locally. we had time this morning, the president and i, and i saw really government and locals -- both federal and local working at its best. in 10 or 15 minutes of a shared initiative that the president is taking on in iowa where

sometimes it's a very complex issue and it may be hard to roll out nationally. i watched him talk to me about it at iowa and was thinking, we've got to get in on that. we the marshal service. as he works with the fbi and takes on this new initiative, it's an opportunity to say, if we could get engaged and then as a group work through this together so that it's easier to apprehend, identify fugitives through technology. it gives us a chance then to roll that information into the ncjs and then make sure we can widely disperse this on our success. we'll struggle together to find funding, but i look forward working with the president in trying to identify perhaps governmental funding to help this initiative, because it would be so advantageous to our task forces nationwide as we work together to apprehend fugitives. i thank you for the conversation this morning. so it's not always the federal government coming in. many times today it's actually easier for you to have an initiative at a local level, for us to help start that initiative at the local level, work through the intricacies and issues that may arise and then start to move

them into the national forum. it's really a two-way street we work on. i think the center of ncjs that has membership from the association, on our board. membership from industry, membership across law enforcement, state and federal is a perfect venue for us all to capitalize on. so please know that's available to you. if you're not already aware of it, your local marshall's office can help guide you to that. we'll be around afterwards and i'm glad to pass out some information on ncjs and what's available to you. moving away from court operations a little bit and into knowledge that all of us deal with every day, a program. the marshal service will process approximately 200,000 prisoners this year alone. resulting in an average population being housed of 63,000 prisoners. this could not be accomplished without your support. we are grateful to the services

that you lent to us in detention. let's face it. there is nothing easy about running detention facilities. or detention programs. i am pleased to see that the detention trustee mike pearson here with us today. as you know the federal detention trustee's office was really created to help with the infrastructure operations that we face in detention. how can we do it better? how can we deal with conditions of confinements. how can we leverage technology to help us process prisoners and keep them moving so we can get them into prisoner facilities and out of detention. it's a great work of the detention trustee that we've been able to make advancements and the great work of the trustee that's helped us in our agreements and iga process in trying to streamline that through technology and make it easier. we are faced, all of us in detention and you face it more than anyone, space challenges, conditions of confinement issues, lawsuits, numerous regulations and certainly never enough budget to deal with the ever-increasing population.

we feel in detention that when the prisons back up, they stay in detention longer and that impacts our budget, both for you, both for us. it doesn't matter. state and federal, they're all experiencing the same problem. as the prisons become so full, the longer time in detention, the higher the cost to all of us in detention. we have to stay focused to help keep the prison work and initiatives that are going on from prison space and programs, actually it's helpful to all of us to stay focused on that so we can get more space in prisons. we support the growth of bop institutions so we can get them out of detention and in. so we have to work together across prisons and detention. again you meet that challenge every day. and without you, we could not meet our mission. i am also pleased to just take a moment and touch on the asset forfeiture program because it impacts all of us and it's a positive for all of us. as you know, the usms manages and distributes equitable share

and proceeds to state and local law enforcement agencies that participate in investigations leading to forfeitures. this fiscal year to date, just since october, the asset forfeiture program has already shared $153 million across state and local law enforcement agencies. i'm so pleased to make that announcement. last year, we were able to distribute $568 million shared with local law enforcement for programs. we create additional programs, and i'd like to take a moment to highlight one that's been in place. one that we're really strategically looking ahead to be able to capitalize on some of the authorities that have been given to us in this program. and it's "operation good will program." it actually provides for the opportunity to transfer seized properties to benefit communities through state and local and non-profit organizations. what does that mean? well, i'll give you an example. the very first transfer actually happened on initiative from the attorney general when he was sitting as a u.s. attorney in d.c.

and the first transfer was the fulton hotel in washington, d.c. which is actually seized because of criminal activity. it was seized and turned back to the community as a drug and alcohol treatment program for women. and has been incredibly successful. so we're able to flip that property, revitalize it and then put it to use on the criminal element to try and stop the use of drugs and alcohol abuses. another example was in northern oklahoma. called south haven land transfer. nine residential lots were transferred to the tulsa habitat for humanity incorporated to construct a single family residential housing for low-income families. this not only led to the revitalization of a neighborhood, but actually an entire community by removing the criminal element, redirecting those assets and putting them to good use in the community.

i raise this to you today because over the next couple of years, we'll get very strategic. we want to be able to really increase our training to investigators, detectives, federal agents, so that they have an eye during the investigation of any properties or assets that may be beneficial for the use and can be seized during the event of that case in prosecution. and so, it really starts in the forefront and really starts with the investigators. and so our initiative now that we have well established how to manage this program is really to get on the front end with federal investigators and state and local agencies so that i think in -- when we really get to the true spirit of community policing, it's not only about apprehending the fugitives or not only about going after the bad guys, but it's taking care of our communities and getting rid of the criminal element and putting the properties used in the criminal element to good use fop date, 47 properties have been transferred since the onset of this program. i say let's take it higher. most recently as it relates to

sheriffs, we are in the process of transferring 114 pairs of brand new sneakers to a sheriff's office in their d.a.r.e. program. just to tell you how it can be utilized for you, located in the southern district of indiana, the shoes will be given to middle and high school-aged at-risk children. another initiative of this administration to protect the children. so, you know, again, i want to say to you always to reach out to the marshal service. if you see things or things you are interested, we are very aggressive on asset forfeiture. it has really helped our investigative agencies, and we want to continue. please reach out. i will say that in recent years and something that i hope to bring to some of the initiatives we were talking about this morning, the asset forfeiture fund has been used for joint law enforcement operations. it has been able to provide funding for overtime, vehicles, fuel and retrofitting vehicles through many of our task forces in operation today. over $123 million has been distributed for this purposes.

so again, as you work within your communities, as you struggle within your budgets, please be aware of these programs out there. what participation on the task forces with us means and how we try to redirect and supplement funding to help you to meet and get the criminals off the street. through our task forces nationwide, we have the privilege of working with many of you every day. and you provide excellent deputy sheriffs. in fact, i will say that the success of our fugitive program and how it has grown over the years is greatly due to our collaboration together. it is the work we perform that serves to reduce the crime and protect and serve the people of this nation. together, we can do so much more to protect our children from sexual predators. as you may be aware of, through the authorities given to the usms in the adam walsh act of 2006, we have stood up that program and we can now provide investigative assistance to your

department on noncompliant or potentially noncompliant sex offenders. through our national sex offender targeting center, we have available to you investigative and behavioral analysis, the development of risk assessments and interviewing strategies, case prioritization and especially assistance with developing of a safe guarding program to ensure the wellness of your sex offender investigators. these are difficult investigations on individuals and we have in place for our investigators a wellness program and has been very beneficial and we'd love to share that information if you are already not taking advantage of it. so once again for your local marshals office, through internet, through caller headquarters, we're outreaching to you. we really want to be able to capitalize on the national sex offender targeting center that we have in place. again, it's interagency.

and it has a lot of resources available to you. additionally, please keep in mind through our commitment to the national center for missing and exploited children, we sit down in alexandria at their site, at their headquarters, and we can assist your department on certain missing child cases, including tracking and/or arresting suspects and the recovery of missing children. so remember within our authorities that have been given to us that are new, we're another asset for you to help you reach across your county and state lines and help protect our children. let's keep them safe. finally, i will say that, for me, the last year has proven extremely difficult. and we have stood together in the loss of our law enforcement personnel. last year, as many of you know, proved to be some of the highest numbers we have seen in a long time in the loss of investigators, officers on the street, all due to violent

shootings, attacks and ambushes. for those of us in law enforcement commanders position, i don't think there's anything more difficult than the moment when we get word that there's been a law enforcement shooting involving our personnel. we sit and we wait. our gut feels tight. we're hoping we're going to get the call that the scene has been cleared with no incidents. and unfortunately, when we do not, it is tragic to our department, their family members. we rise to the occasion to bury our own and take care of our families. it is not easy. the law enforcement mission remains and becomes more dangerous every single day. however, despite that danger, the men and women within our organizations put themselves in harm's way daily. they protect others that cannot defend themselves. and they ensure those that have violated the law are brought to justice. for that reason, as leaders, we must remain committed on

reducing the risk to our law enforcement personnel. we cannot allow shrinking budgets to have us waiver in our commitment to protect our people. we owe it to those that put their lives on the line every day. the work the united states marshals service did through our task forces with all of you resulted in the arrest of over 122,000 dangerous felons across this nation. but it came at a loss to us. we lost two deputy united states marshal and seven task force members. all a result of ambush-style shootings. with such a rise in national shootings across the country, many of us leaders were concerned. what was happening? what were we experiencing? was it a shift in the criminal element? or was the increase just random? was it a spike? would it go down? it doesn't matter to me.

in the midst of the shootings that we were experiencing, we decided the usms to perform a comprehensive assessment. to identify and begin an aggressive approach to reducing the risk to the investigators from the criminal element and the behavior that we were seeing in the streets. our approach was across policy, procedures, training, equipment, organizational structure and for the first time ever for us, a behavioral analysis of the criminal element. who was shooting us and why? was there a trend we could identify? could we provide that information to our investigators? we called it the fugitive apprehension risk mitigation assessment. we performed it within six months and at the foundation of our results that i want to share with you today is not anything different than most of us already know. to provide the safety if it gets down to equipment and training. they are critical to officer survival. but we took an approach on this. so often we struggled to get the right equipment.

they are critical to officer survival. but we took an approach on this. so often we struggled to get the right equipment. we struggled with budgets. and we decided we would prioritize this. and then we'd take a new approach and make sure that we directly link each of these areas together in a condensed week-long training program that we were developing across the nation. we committed and prioritized a very focused and dedicated effort this year to officer safety. we aligned and streamlined policies and procedures, procured enhanced cutting edge equipment to make sure it was out there for all of our investigators. we created greater assets for operational planning and threat analysis. we enhanced our training curriculum to include simulated exercises that linked policy and procedures and the advanced equipment we bought,

incorporated the behavior analysis that we were finding on the criminal element threat situations, to create what i would say was a simulated scenarios that were stress induced, very intense week training that was a s.w.a.t.-style type training for all of our officers. we focused on three primary areas of arrest. building entries, vehicle stops and open space arrests. we put them in simulated stress situations, used live fire where we could. used sound effects that we could. used lighting where we could. we really tried to raise the stress level. had them work in large teams instead of just individually in a training environment with a flipping target. the idea was to create as many life-threatening situations with induced simulated stress and utilize the new equipment. we actually took the scenarios from start to finish. had them decide what equipment. many times i am always asked from nonlaw enforcement, do they have shields?

do you always use a shield? does each person have a shield? sometimes a shield is not the best thing to take into an incident. you have to have the investigators thinking what equipment do i need in this scenario? what do i know about where i'm going? the training gets them on the front line thinking and then carries them through. we provide them with shields, ballistic helmets, blankets, gave them everything to use and make their decisions in this training curriculum the idea was to take it further than any other academy-style training to remove some of the restrictions we face and create an environment that was more realistic. so we had, for instance, the team shooting live fire down the range with the shield so they got used to one on the shield shooting. the other guy shooting next to his ear. what was it like to continue the shots while the other shots were going off close. giving them a real feeling to what that situation would be like. let me ask, how many of you have ever used a fas machine? how many have used the new 365 machine?

it's a whole new experience. it's like fats on steroids we call it. where you actually are on a stage like this with five screens. so we use different scenarios that we simulate the machine with. it's got incredible sound system. vibration systems. you put everything in there that you can and so you don't have someone just looking straight ahead. you've got to keep them focused on the entire area. we put them in there individually. we put them in there with team members. if you ever get an opportunity to look at equipment to procure, this is probably one of the best training advances you can easily put together in any location and it gets so much. the investigator gets so much out of it. i welcome any of you to join us in our training sites for a demonstration, if you are interested. the other thing that we did was create kind of a medic program with our deputies. gave our deputies basic training on basic medical equipment.

we put them into a simulated shooting situation on how they themselves have to apply their medical treatment or have others with shields applying it while still suppressing fire. getting them used to a real-life situation. we took this from our own shootings. from the heroes that survived that protected the injured and got them out of the shooting situation. we actually took that and put that from their information provided to us after the shooting into our training scenarios. we have equipment to extract the injured out. so you'll see them extracting the injured out while engaging and suppressing fire. all of this in the week-long training session going across our nation, we hope to train 1,500 u.s. marshals and task force officers over the course of the year. we continue to make sure that it's a priority. and all of it is to make sure our people are safe. we will not tolerate unreasonable attacks on law enforcement personnel. and we must do all we can to protect them.

the fact remains, guns in the hands of repeat offenders and drugs are the common denominators in law enforcement killings. we must never waver in our fight against crime to honor those that have fallen weep need to get the guns out of the hands of the felon. [ applause ] thank you. director, we are committed and remain committed to support your efforts on the war against drugs. and to support you locally throughout our task forces to continue to combat drugs. we've got to address both guns and drugs to protect only our citizens and our law enforcement personnel. thank you for your service to your communities. and may i say you will always have my support and i thank you. and it's an honor to serve with you. >> director hylton, thank you for your remarks today and

taking time out of your busy schedule to join us. we would like to offer you as a token of our appreciation the office of sheriff, a history of the office of sheriff and an nsa portfolio and the nsa mug. >> thank you very much. it's beautiful. thank you. thank you. >> thank you very much. join us next week, witnesses including the head of the cia david petraeus and robert muller, director of the fbi among other intelligence chiefs. we'll have live coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern on our companion network c-span.

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