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FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the FBI will be closing down its headquarters and moving 1,500 agents out of the Washington, DC area.
Patel said on Fox Business, "The FBI is 38,000 when we're fully manned, which we're not. In the National Capital Region, in the 50-mile radius around Washington, DC, there were 11,000 FBI employees. That's like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn't happen here. So, we're taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out."
"Every state's getting a plus up," Patel later added. He said that the process to move the agents will take around next nine months or so and then added, "I didn't know that I was going to do this, but I'm going to announce it on your show anyway, this FBI is leaving the Hoover Building because this building is unsafe for our workforce."
“What we want the American men what men and women to know, if you're going to come work at the premier law enforcement agency in the world, we're going to give you a building that's commensurate with that and that's not this place,” Patel added.
During the segment, he remarked that the steps from the FBI will “inspire folks in America to become Intel analysts and agents that say, ‘We want to go work at the FBI because we want to go fight violent crime, and we want to get sent out to the country to do it.’”
Previous to Patel being appointed to the FBI Director role, he said that he wanted to shut down the Hoover building. The agency has focused on arrest perpetrators of child crimes in recent weeks, with 200 suspected child predators being arrested nationwide earlier in May. The FBI has also seen a skyrocketing number of applications as he took on the role under the Trump administration.
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