Crime and Drugs

Keeping our streets safe and our communities drug-free has never been more important. Every American has a right to live, work, and raise a family in a safe, crime-free neighborhood. And every child has the right to go to a safe, drug-free school.

I am committed to making our streets and schools as safe as possible, and have taken concrete actions to do so, including:

Leading the fight for an increase in COPS funding for local law enforcement agencies to put more police officers on our streets.

Fighting the emerging threats of methamphetamine labs and OxyContin abuse in our rural communities.

Funding a $1 million statewide DNA initiative to help our state's crime labs process their DNA backlog.

Helping expand the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, which gives local law enforcement more tools for combatting drugs.

Introducing the Arresting Child Predators Act to improve the ability of law enforcement agencies to catch child predators.

Passing into law pass the Securing Adolescents From Exploitation Online (SAFE) Act, which clarified and enhanced the current system for Internet Service Providers to report online child pornography and made the failure to report child pornography a federal crime.

Voting to authorize a grant program to end elder abuse and neglect, and to provide training for law enforcement agencies to better serve victims.

Latest

• Vitter Welcomes News of Attorney General Eric Holder’s Resignation

  (Metairie, La.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) today welcomed the news that Attorney General Eric Holder will be resigning.

   Read More

  Posted on 09/25/14

  ---

• Vitter: Appeal for Stanford Ponzi Scheme Victim Fails, Highlights Need to Reform SIPC

  ( U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) today made the following statement after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lost an appeal to compel the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) to recoup money for the victims of a Ponzi scheme run by financier Allen Stanford.

   Read More

  Posted on 07/18/14

  ---

• Vitter Introduces Bill to Punish Union Violence

  (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-La.) introduced the Freedom from Union Violence Act (FUVA), which would make any violence committed as a part of labor union organizing a federal crime. Current law imposes criminal penalties for acts of robbery or extortion affecting interstate commerce, but a loophole makes an exception for union violence.

   Read More

  Posted on 07/01/14

  ---

• Vitter: Obama’s Civil Rights Office Nominee Helped Defend a Cop-Killer

  (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter is opposing President Obama’s nomination of Debo Adegbile to head the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Adegbile previously worked as legal counsel to the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, which helped overturn a death sentence for Mumia Abu-Jamal, who murdered a police officer in Philadelphia.

   Read More

  Posted on 03/05/14

  ---

• Vitter Applauds State Officials for Accepting his Suggestion, Punishing EBT Fraud

  

  Posted on 11/07/13

  ---

• Vitter Introduces Amendment to Disqualify Violent Criminals from Federal Housing Assistance

  

  Posted on 07/23/13

  ---

• Vitter Amendment Would Disqualify Violent Criminals from Federal Housing Assistance

  (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) today introduced an amendment to the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill that would disqualify violent criminals from receiving federal housing assistance. The Senate will vote on this amendment this week.

   Read More

  Posted on 07/23/13

  ---

• Vitter Wants Appeal of Ruling Against Stanford Ponzi scheme Victims

   

   Read More

  Posted on 07/27/12

  ---

• Vitter Comments on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Four Others Charged in 9/11 Attacks

  (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter today made the following statement regarding news that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others have been charged with planning and executing the September 11, 2001 attacks.

  “Nothing we can do will take back the pain caused on September 11, 2001, but we need to continue doing everything we can to make sure we keep terrorists out of our homeland,” Vitter said. “Terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed have no business getting access to the same rights as U.S. citizens in our court system, and getting this done through a military tribunal is absolutely the right thing to do.”

   Read More

  Posted on 04/04/12

  ---

• Vitter-Thune Concealed Carry Reciprocity Bill Would Balance Rights of States, Individual Gun Owners

  (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) today introduced their Respecting States’ Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would guarantee the rights of gun owners to carry concealed weapons across state lines in accordance with the laws of individual states. The bill balances the constitutional rights protected by the Second Amendment with the rights of each state to enforce its own laws regarding concealed firearms.

   Read More

  Posted on 03/20/12

  ---