Sessions touted Project Safe Neighborhoods, an effort to target the highest crime areas in the country, which includes a recent focus in Indianapolis and Evansville.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions spent 30 minutes defending the administration’s policies.

Hundreds of protesters gathered on the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Ewing Street. They held up signs and chanted things like, “This is what democracy looks like” and “Vote them out.”

During his remarks Sessions announced the creation of a Violent Crime Reduction Coordinating Committee, meant to help coordinate anti-crime efforts in the Department of Justice.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.