we reduced the size of our narcotics unit, and some of our investigative teams. and it was a tremendous impact. you know, we got the dividends on the front end. i think we got what we were looking for in emergency room its of visibility, deterrence and all that, but it did come at a cost. over time, i think it's going to impact us over time in terms of those cuts. we'd like to get those units back in motion, and this request will allow us to do that and keep our foot patrol units intact, if not enhanced. because even with this increase in deployment, there are still some areas where we'd like to see those foot patrols grow even higher. >> supervisor cohen: all right. thank you. yes, supervisor stefani has a question. >> supervisor stefani: thank you. chief scott, with regard to the foot patrol, i was just looking at northern station, there was 12 there, which i find that shockingly low. i know you're doing your best, and i thank you for that. i'm just wondering what determining factors go into where foot patrol officers are actually allocated. >> yeah. we did an

for 10 years iran a narcotics unit and got the problem from the ground up.when people are desperate to get the narcotics they need so they don't get sick they will do anything to get away from police officers, stay on the street and violence is endemic in and among people involved in this type of work so mental health issues, substance abuse issues when they combine, basically the police are asked to deal with these issues and it is not what our primary job should be. >> we are hearing about the so-called war on cops. is there a war on cops? >> i don't think there is any doubt because of the narrative that has occurred over the last we 10 years or so we are suffering as an organization, a profession. they can act out, they can challenge the authority police officers have. the police have hinged on this at this time. there have been so many incidents that have occurred that police are stepping back a little bit and this sets up a tragic consequence where police are not acting as aggressively as they should in situations they are being threatened. rob: being p

unit upside down. >> inmates are very crafty, and there are thousands of places where narcotics can be hidden within the units. >> anyone accused of a crime in san antonio will most likely pass through the bexar county jail. >> got to spread out on the wall right here. remove your shoes and socks and put them on the floor behind you. >> some will make bond and leave, but on any given day, about 3,500 men and women are housed here awaiting trial or resolution of their cases. deciding in which of jail's 84 housing units to place each inmate is a complex process known as classification. >> every inmate that comes into our facility is interviewed by a classification officer. so our class officer are trained to try to figure out where do we house this person where we will have the least amount of problems. so they're looking for things like is he mentally ill? does he have any medical issues? >> any problem with seizures? >> no, ma'am. >> suicidal? >> no, ma'am. >> gang related? >> no, ma'am. >> homosexual? >> no, ma'am. >> of all these factors, arguably the most critical to reducing violence is determini

the reason the gangs are prospering is because of the appetite for narcotics in the united states and the fact that we launder millions of dollars into those gangs. do you see that question mark >> it is -- see that? representser now $100 billion. next you think we are doing enough -- >> do you think we are doing enough? >> for many years, we were successful with the movement of money and the support of the cartels and the drug trade. on the demand side in the united states, we have a lot of work to support theffort to defeat of the narco terrorists in mexico have fallen short. >> what about the narcotic, fentanyl, which is taking many lives? it is a synthetic opioid. playing ins china shipping fentanyl to the night states? amount.nificant congress has been fantastic in providing resources to the executive branch to push back against this new and truly-grave threat. >> i was in venezuela and o said that aur lection wouldn't be recognized they were the world. there have been incredible negative outcomes in public health and they have now gone through with the election. what's is the ne

the appetite for narcotics in the united states. the money that flows, the drug money that flows south from our border into next and central america. the firearms that flow by the thousands into south and central america from the united states of america, creating these gangs and creating these cartels that bring such violence on local people. these countries have among the highest homicide rates in the world. girls face a constant threat of sexual violence and rape, with little protection from local authorities. is it any reason that in desperation so many of them seek our shores and seek our country for the safety of their kids? this is why families are taking extraordinary risks to flee to our border. any parent would do the same to save a child. what has been the response of the trump administration to these families fleeing for their lives? the mothers and fathers trying to protect their girls from sexual violence and rape? on april 6, attorney general jeff sessions announced the trump administration adopted a new zero toleranc

to go after norco criminals and that's been through working with administrative narcotics, billy-- building special units and national investigation units , working with president ghani in support of a national drug action plan and there have been some successes. rather than going after individual farmers are focused on drug labs and last year we had 84 joint raids. we predicted about $360 million worth of drugs. there's a counter narcotics justice center which is prosecuting these narcotic cases with a 99% conviction record, security-- a security is a key part. as is the fact that over the last 16 years we have build up a cadre of afghans so the responsibility for undertaking these actions reside in these afghan institutions. >> one of the other things that has to be a prerequisite here is within the government of afghanistan that governments has to credibly combat corruption and that has been a long-standing problem. we have our special investigative general for afghanistan reconstruction where we spend 55 million per year just to make sure our funds aren't missed used and my time has expired and i wil

help hold the united states accountable for some of the violence is taking place in mexico not only because of the seeming seeming insatiable appetite the americans have for illicit narcoticsbut also for the lack of gun control in the united states which has direct implications for mexico as we see by the seemingly endless flow of high caliber military grade weapons into mexico. one of the things that's been notable in this campaign is that all of the candidates have been quite vague on their security strategy given how key it is right now. why do you think that is i think one of the main reasons is is because there's no one size fits all solution to mexico's security problems what do i mean by that i mean that the security environment the security situation changes from not only state to state but also municipality to municipality in that respect i think going forward that the new government would have to pay a place greater emphasis on the state level governments. role in ensuring public security rather than continually refer on the federal security forces a lot of underlying issues no or maybe you were saying to me there's no silver bullet for this one that's completely

unit. these are their stories. the perp is sergeant frank foster, brooklyn narcotics. turns up on this web page. guy who took it won't say where she is. who's the hostage? the guy who interviewed his daughter-- he films street kids and puts them on the web. sergeant foster's state of mind? wants his kid. how many in the room? four plus the taker. two are his family. if it was my kid, i'd probably do the same thing. we all might, lieutenant. ready? we got him on the monitor. here you go. cragen: sergeargeant fost. this is captain donald cragen, special victims unit.

. >> reporter: unit 104 houses 70 men like sam who have access to alcoholics and narcotics anonymouseetings along with a daily schedule of classes to prepare for the g.e.d. or job interviews. >> my worst case scenario is going back out and using again. that is the worst case scenario. it's death. >> reporter: sam knows this all too well. he lost his wife melissa to a drug overdose, just a few months after he entered jail for d.u.i. and wanton endangerment. >> she o.d.ed and died. my 6-year-old was standing there, getting ready for school. i didn't get to go to the funeral. so i've been here the whole time. my wife, she never did anything before she met me. very hard to deal with, the guilt, i deal with it every day. >> reporter: he says his three children including that 6-year-old daughter will motivate him to stay on the straight and narrow when he leaves jail. >> the only thing she wants is for me to come home. she just wants daddy to come home. it's very hard. >> reporter: the jail's rehab program has become a source of hope for these men stuck in a deadly cycle. >> we are seeing

for example, in the united states we in bndd used techniques like undercover bys. the nature of the narcotics crime is where you don't have a complainant. so you have to have a way of getting into these organizations. the very effective way was using informants to give you the information about what was going on. and wire taps and things like this. in france like -- under the napoleonic code law which actually was in most of europe informants were not allowed to participate in the cases like they were in the u.s. they couldn't pay them for their information. and undercover bies were completely out of the picture because that would be a crime in itself to actually precipitate a by. these techniques that were very common in the united states and effective were unknown in france. but the french police had a great interest in this. this franco-american committee that was set up by mr. krogh and his assistants was very effective in creating an atmosphere in which there could be cross training. for example, rather than we americans telling the french you don't know what you're doing or the french s

narcotics was once unimaginable. it then became the norm of the government extraditing the most dangerous kingpin to the united states in the last hours of the obama administration. on july 1, they have a new president, i worry that it president trump continues along the same line, the president-elect may pull the plug on security cooperation. where would that leave us the next time were seeking in a tradition, or of terrorist thought to across the u.s. mexican border, too much is at stake in our relationship. we simply don't know if the president will continue to do this and do damage. looking south, mexico is just a start. for months, the families have been torn apart in central america children have been held ransom to a radical immigrant agenda. the president created this policy and said only congress could fix it which was not true. make clear that he signed an executive order. the damage was done, children to this day still remain a part from their parents. that has to change. the organization states that the adopted resolution on june 29 criticizing this policy. tarts remember a time when the oas counsel so fo

at o'hare, as they are sifting through millions of packages coming into the united states, trying to stop the flow of narcotics, fentanyl and other things coming into the country. my guess is, most americans would say to you and your agency, stop the drugs from coming in here, stop the fentanyl for goodness sakes and stop separating kids from their families and spending your resources and personnel on that effort. wouldn't you agree? >> ice has two operational components. doing humanurity, trafficking and smuggling efforts is not involved in this effort. the reason we had to put additional resources to this effort was the result of the judge's order. >> it was the result of a creation of this policy by this president. zero-tolerance was not created by this judge. the separation of 2700 parents from the children is not a judge's decision. that was your agency's decision and the administration's decision. blame others if you wish but this started with someone in the white house with a bright idea that turned out to be a disaster. >> what i can tell you is that ice has long-standing policy for reunification of ch

narcotics shipped through the mail. we have thousands and thousands of great employees in the united states postal service, but sometimesif we've got a bad apple in the group, the mail itself is being used to deliver some of the worst narcotics to americans. we need to be able to increase what the inspector general can do to track down a bad actor even in the united states postal service. the bill provides full funding to the federal communication division to help close the digital divide between metropolitan areas and rural areas in oklahoma. we want to protect consumer safety and improve the telecommunication companies throughout the state. this sets the precedent for increasing cellphone coverage in some of the most rural areas in the country, including rural areas in oklahoma. oklahoma receives the second-largest allocation of lifeline funds in the entire country, $128 million. but there is some waste and inefficiency and there are some individuals, even in my state, that are getting lifeline funds that should not get them. so we've increased the ability to be more efficient and make sure that lifeline funds are tar

narcotics was once imaginable. amazingly it became the norm with the mexican government extraditing the most dangerous drug kingpin "el chapo" guzman to the united states. they elected a new president. i worry if president trump continues along the same lines, president-elect lopez obrador may pull the plug on security cooperation. where would that leave us the next time we're seeking an extradition? or if terrorists sought to cross the u.s.-mexican border? too much is at stake in our bilateral relationship, and we simply don't know if the president will continue to take to twitter and do damage. and looking south, mexico is just the start. for months the families have been torn apart and central american children essentially have been held ransom to a radical agenda. the president created this policy. he then said only congress could fix it, which wasn't true, made clear by the fact he then signed an executive order trying to end the policy. but the damage was done. children to this day still remain apart from their parents. that has to change. the organization of american states unanimously adopted a resolution on june 29th, criticizing the in

united states in 2017. and 980,000 which is the number of pounds of narcotics homeland security investigations seized in 2017 which included thousands of pounds of deadly drugs like fentanyl that help fuel the opioid crisis. i.c.e. plays a leading role in all of these areas. if the critics get their wish and i.c.e. were abolished, the numbers for all of these items would be zero because homeland security investigations could not exist without i.c.e. there's more. think about close to 33,000 criminal arrests made by homeland security investigations made last year. 90 criminal arrests each day. without i.c.e., these criminals would still be on the streets endangering our communities. and the 524 -- $524 million in illicit currency that was seized, it would be back in circulation being used in illegal transactions. and 7,000 pounds of heroin, 57,000 pounds of methamphetamines and 260,000 pounds of cocaine were impounded last year. that would all be back on the market and being sold, poison being sold in our communities. so i hope our colleagues who are calling for the abolition of i.c.e. are prepared to explain