I held a forum with police departments from New Britain and Plymouth coming together to talk about the issues in their different communities. We need to support our law enforcement, the statistics. How in the world can you have. At the state trooper level, we're down 400 state troopers. We should have over 1200. We have less than 800. We are not doing the job in terms of going after the criminals because our forces are depleted. I want to go down to Washington. I want to provide resources to our departments. (00:27–00:34)
CLAIM
Asserts that there is a shortage of 400 state troopers, with current numbers below 800 instead of over 1200.
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