If Trump's dismissals have hit the FBI office in Kansas City, job discounts "will only make us less safe"

The FBI Kansas City Field office has more than one hundred agents (the actual number is classified), but one may never have seen one. Unlike the police, they do not drive in vehicles marked with lights above. But they work in cases and assist the Local Police.

“We depend on them and depend on us to make America safe. This problem is not raised, “said Johnson County Sheriff, Byron Roberson.

As the brochure dismissals are announced at the federal agencies under the new Trump administration, former FBI agents and top law enforcement officials worry about what will happen to the 56 land offices from all over the country, including Kansas City.

The office has already done were fired or forced six top officials to withdraw. The administration also participated in a federal sample employee blow – something that would have a huge impact on the FBI. The Association of FBI agents says that 10% of the workforce is still in their probationary period.

The Department of Justice’s Driving Driving also asked for a list of all employees
who participated in the investigations on January 6, which determined the fear that those employees of the FBI will be targeted for dismissal. This would definitely include veteran agents distributed in Kansas City.

“My concern is that if we lose the institutional knowledge that these individuals have in the workplace through this process of eliminating federal employees, it will only do less safe,” said the former Kansas lawyer, Barry Grissom.

Why do FBI field offices have?

The FBI Kansas City Field office has investigators spread in Kansas and Western Missouri in eight offices called resident agents. These small offices – often only two agents – work especially with local law enforcement.

Grissom was appointed American lawyer by President Barack Obama and served from 2010 to 2016. Now he is in private practice. He says that even a few agents could be a big problem. An agent can work between 15 and 20 cases simultaneously. Many of these investigations involve intense coordination between FBI agents and local law enforcement.

“(Local agencies) are the eyes and ears on the ground,” Grissom told Kur.

This includes combating terrorism, even in Kansas and Missouri.

“The problem of combating terrorism is not only a national problem, but it is also a local problem,” said FBI retired agent, Greg Vecchi, who now runs a security consulting company in Olathe.

The Local Land Bureau leads several working groups that include local and state law enforcement. Most importantly, said Vecchi, is the common working group of terrorism.

“The FBI must be able to have relationships with different jurisdictions when and where the real attacks are planned,” he said.

This was the case in 2018, when the resident agents in Garden City, Kansas, worked with police and sheriff’s deputies to stop an plot to bomb a mosque and a complex of apartments To kill somali immigrants.

“During my time as a US lawyer, I had two documents, I should say, potential acts of terrorism in which FBI was implicated intimately,” Grissom said. One stopped an Bombarding suicide car at Wichita Airport In December 2013, the other stopped another bombing with suicidal cars in 2015 targeting Fort Rileyat home at the 1st Army Infantry Division.

In addition, the Kansas City office leads the working group for the child’s exploitation and the trafficking of people and the working group of safe streets, which target bands and drug cartels.

The office also offers training for local police and sheriff’s departments. Vecchi said when he drove the FBI’s behavioral science unit in Quantico, Virginia, its agents would often train the local police at the interrogation.

“This is a huge benefit for law enforcement,” he said. The office also offers training for local SWAT teams.

All this, plus access to the Washington Laboratory of the FBI and the criminal laboratory of the Kansas City regional computer, does not cost any additional cost for local administrations or police departments.

Vecchi believes that if the local land agents are fired, those who work in the administration will be reinsured on the street. But if the discounts go deeper, this is a huge problem. If there are mass redundancies or redundancies, Vecchi said: “I will have absolutely encrypt it” and investigate the control of terrorism.

Roberson, who was the head of police in the village of Prairie, before being chosen Sheriff, said that any discount on the Kansas City field office will damage the local law enforcement.

“There is a great leadership that could be lost in that organization that you cannot go out and reinvent yourself and pick up on the street,” Roberson said.

ATF and in danger

Patel is also now in line to take over another Jeopardy agency – alcohol office, tobacco firearms and explosives, According to Associated Press.

The representative of Missouri, Eric Burlison, from Springfield, submitted a draft law to eliminate the agency. On social networks, Burlison said ATF “constantly violates the second change” and claims that its functions are duplicate.

“The Missouri State has all the agencies we need to regulate everything at ATF”, ” He said Missourinet in December.

Representative Mark Alford, who represents a large part of Kansas City and Mid-Missuri suburbs, joined as a co-ponsor.

“Proud to be a Bill Coponsor to Rep. El wrote on facebook.

ATF investigates weapon crimes and regulates federal firearms dealers. He also looks at Arsons, including a fire at Waldo Heights Apartments on 81st Street and Holmes in 2021 and one to the stonagate Meadows apartments In 2022, he injured 15 people, including nine children.

“The idea that you only eliminate that agency for political partisancies, I just think it is incredibly short of congress.