Deputy Director Raya credits '60-plus' reforms with improved FBI performance

Deputy Director Raya said the FBI has undertaken "60 plus transformational, quite frankly, historic changes" under Director Patel over the past 18 months and described those reforms as central to recent operational gains. Raya said those reforms changed how priorities are set and how information flows between headquarters, the field and partner agencies.

Raya told the host that the bureau's reorganizations and policy shifts have been paired with measurable outcomes. "Those 60 plus transformational...changes ... we've made through Director Patel's leadership in in in the last 18 months," Raya said, linking the reforms to statistics released in the uniform crime reporting. He added that the changes include giving field commanders more authority, streamlining an operations center, and deploying analytic tools to push actionable leads to the field.