[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 3 (Thursday, January 8, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H114]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              STANDING IN SOLIDARITY WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, last week on the evening of New Year's 
Day, I had the honor and privilege of being invited to attend the 
Fallen Officers Memorial in Chico, California, where I joined members 
of our community in paying tribute to members of our law enforcement 
who had made the ultimate sacrifice in the previous year.
  In the U.S., we lost 118 officers nationwide, 14 in California. We 
are still mourning and feeling the sting of the loss of Officer Davis 
and Officer Oliver in a horrific crime spree in Placer County in 
northern California.
  Yet what we hear in the news isn't really consistent with how we 
value our law enforcement--at least, how we should. Nearly 50,000 
officers in 2013 were physically assaulted in the line of duty, but all 
we hear about is the other way. Madam Speaker, less than 1 in 1,000 
contacts officers have result in any kind of physical need with the 
public. Indeed, that is less than half of 1 percent of an estimated 44 
million contacts our officers have.
  Now, in light of what we saw in Paris yesterday where their officers, 
in many cases, are disarmed, and what it looks like is happening in 
America, we are disarming the confidence in our officers and our law 
enforcement, we better change our attitude really quickly and value 
what our men and women in blue do for us so we don't have a worsening 
situation like we see going on around the world.
  I stand today in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in law 
enforcement and ask that all Americans do the same as we do our 
business.

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