The resolution, which was introduced in honor of National Police Week in May, also states that the Senate “highly respects and values the law enforcement officers of the United States and greatly appreciates all that those officers do to protect and serve their communities.” U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) joined Senator Vance as an original cosponsor of the resolution.
CBB partnered with Senator Vance in drafting the resolution and provided many of the facts and figures contained in the legislation. “We are proud to be working with Senator Vance in support of America’s law enforcement officers,” declared CBB founder and president, Craig W. Floyd. “He is a highly respected and effective champion for policing professionals in Ohio and across the country.”
“With so much negative noise about defunding, defaming and even abolishing police over the last few years, officers are demoralized and leaving the profession in droves,” Floyd stated. “Our nation’s policing professionals need to know that our elected leaders have their backs and want to give law enforcement the resources and respect needed and deserved to keep America safe. Senator Vance’s resolution sends that message loud and clear.”
S.Res. 218 also cites many of the other problems associated with the “defund and defame the police” movement, including “a dramatic rise in homicides and other violent crimes in cities and towns across the United States,” and “an increasingly dangerous environment for law enforcement officers in which, in 2022 alone, 331 officers were shot, 62 of whom were shot fatally.”
The resolution cites two other notable facts. Over the last two years “more than 800 law enforcement officers died in the United States in the line of duty, the highest number of such deaths over a two-year period in the history of the United States.” And, “there are more than 23,000 fallen law enforcement officers honored on the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.”
