Director Patel Addresses Nassau County Police Ahead of President Trump's Violent Crime Announcement
August 15, 2026 · FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation · 0:04:12
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What happened
FBI Director Kash Patel spoke at the Nassau County Police Academy Center for Training and Intelligence in Garden City, New York, describing it as a homecoming after three decades in Nassau County. Patel, who described himself as a first-generation Indian-American whose parents fled a genocide in East Africa and immigrated lawfully, credited the men and women of local law enforcement with keeping his family safe and making his rise to become the ninth FBI director possible.
Patel said President Trump would come out and announce the largest reduction in violent crime in the history of the United States, and thanked the President for backing, funding, and loving law enforcement and for relentlessly pursuing the mission of justice. He said law enforcement under this administration puts handcuffs on bad guys instead of on officers, and pledged that the FBI and its partners would continue crushing violent crime and defending the homeland.
Patel closed by saying that thanks to President Trump’s leadership the American dream is a reality rather than a dream, and then welcomed Attorney General Todd Blanche to the stage.
Why it matters
The speech framed the administration’s public-safety claim — a historically large drop in violent crime — through the FBI director’s personal story, and set the stage for the President’s and Attorney General’s appearances at the same event.
Scoreboard watch
Patel said President Trump would announce the largest reduction in violent crime in U.S. history at the event — a claim checkable against FBI and Bureau of Justice Statistics violent-crime data as it is published.
Sources: FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Full Remarks: Director Patel Addresses Police in Nassau County, N.Y.”, 2026-08-15 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-08-15). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.
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