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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).
For the past seven years, the most prominent federalcrime-prevention initiative has been the Community OrientedPolicing Services (COPS) program, which gives grants to state andlocal law enforcement agencies to help them reduce crime byincreasing community policing services.
The COPS program has an extensive track record of poor performanceand should be eliminated. Some Members of Congress propose resuscitating it with COPS 2.0. Congress should limit itself toasserting uniquely federal interests, starting with those that theConstitution clearly assigns to the national government. Effectivepolicing at the state and local levels does not require fundingfrom the federal government.
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