The problem I would have is funding cops for another state. Meaning how much per person is allocated and what percentage of that goes to their own state? Clinton did the same thing with the 100,00 cops thing. But the was for Community Oriented Policing Services. So is that what Obama is doing? And Clinton has conflicting reports on whether he did it or not. CBS has him saying he did it just before 2000. 12/13 to be exact. Well he had to say that because he would not have made his goal.
The funds come from what may have been Bill Clinton's most ballyhooed domestic program: Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, which he inaugurated in 1994 with a promise that, through federal grants for hiring recruits and buying equipment, it would put 100,000 new police on the streets. As crime rates declined during his time in office, he frequently claimed credit for COPS. In political terms, it was pure gold. By pushing the then old-fashioned conservative idea of cracking down on bad guys with armies of men in blue, Clinton did a huge amount to steal the law-and-order issue from Republicans. At the same time, he appealed to liberals with lots of syrupy rhetoric about "community policing," which emphasizes promoting good relations between cops and poor urban minorities—two groups that traditionally view each other with suspicion.After Sept. 11, COPS has an air of fighting the last war. Random street crime looks a lot less worrisome when it's set against the menace of Islamic terrorism. And the program surely could be seen as draining resources away from the new and more ominous threat. Heritage Foundation analyst David Muhlhausen notes that since 1996, the federal government has spent nearly nine times more on this venture than on all FBI counterterrorism efforts. But none of the rethinking that occcurred in recent weeks has had any discernible effect on the future of COPS. The Bush administration's budget proposed only a minor trim in its budget for 2002, and both houses of Congress insisted on exceeding the request to authorize more than $1 billion a year. Now this was a congress that was out of control with their spending as well as are any I have ever seen. Democrat or republican. So in conclusion, if it gets in, it will have to be funded. And by whom? Us of course.
Re: U.S. to provide $1 billion to hire cops
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