Fmr. FBI Special Agent: Violence Against Law Enforcement Is ‘Reprehensible,’ It Must Stop

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PARKER: "Trace, this actually infuriates me. The ongoing violence against law enforcement is reprehensible. It’s disgusting and it has got to stop. Americans need to understand, law enforcement officers and police officers, they are not making significant sums of money. I mean, I used to work on Wall Street and then I became an FBI agent. I see the discrepancy and how much these individuals make. They are putting their lives on the line every single day, and they are not putting their lives on the line for their family members or loved ones necessarily. This officer died, you know, he was protecting New Yorkers. This is a total stranger. And now he is dead. His wife no longer has a husband. His 1-year-old son no longer has a father. As an FBI agent who lost my closest friend in the FBI, Special Agent Laura Schwartzenberger, in a very similar manner, she was shot in the head, took one round to the head with an assault rifle and she's now dead, she had two young sons, I have very strong views about this. What’s it going to take for people like Mayor Adams to wake up? He’s a former NYPD officer himself. This is unacceptable. Judges, you need to be giving the most stringent sentenced possible. Prosecutors, you have to be aggressive, you have to actually charge people. And law enforcement, get in there and make these things happen because these repeat offenders cannot be on the streets, they cannot be hurting and killing our law enforcement officers anymore."