Reduce Crime and Protect Public Safety Support 200,000 more police officers through recruiting bonuses and oppose all efforts to defund the police.
Support 200,000 more police officers through recruiting bonuses and oppose defunding the police.
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Congressman Nick Langworthy today announced the introduction of the Seneca Nation Law Enforcement Efficiency Act, legislation designed to address long-standing jurisdictional confusion that has undermined effective law enforcement coordination on and around Seneca Nation lands in Western New York.
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The promised outcome was specific: support 200,000 additional police officers through recruiting bonuses and oppose defunding police. During Langworthy's House term, Congress enacted the Recruit and Retain Act as Public Law 118-64 on May 24, 2024, expanding COPS grant uses for recruitment-related support, but it did not itself deliver 200,000 more officers or establish broad recruiting bonuses at the promised scale. Langworthy was not listed as a sponsor or cosponsor of the House companion, and the supplied 2026 Seneca Nation law-enforcement bill concerns jurisdictional coordination rather than police recruiting bonuses or a 200,000-officer hiring target. This supports partial credit for a same-term federal recruitment-support outcome and anti-defunding posture, but not full delivery of the campaign promise.