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A resident is worried about his home becoming a crime hotspot after car park lights have been broken for weeks.

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The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforce­ment Act of 1994authorized the creation of an intergovernmental grant programwithin the U.S. Department of Justice to fund the hiring andrede­ployment of 100,000 additional community polic­ingofficers on America's streets. The program that administers thegrants is the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services(COPS).

After September 11, The United States cannot afford to wastevaluable resources on misplaced priorities and ineffectiveprograms. Common sense dictates that resources should be shiftedaway from the ineffective programs of the DOJ to programs that willbetter protect America's security.

Toggle open close INTRODUCTION Policymakers at last are coming to recognize the connection between the breakdown of American families and various social problems. The unfolding debate over welfare reform, for instance, has been shaped by the wide acceptance in recent years that children born into single-parent families are much more likely than children of intact families to fall into poverty and welfare dependence themselves in later years. These children, in fact, face a daunting array of problems. While this link between illegitimacy and chronic welfare dependency now is better understood,...