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David Stanley Ford

Police await funds for jobs

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Published: July 3, 2009

WASHINGTON — The nation’s police departments are clamoring for an unprecedented amount of federal aid to forestall local tax hikes or the possible layoff of nearly 40,000 police officers.

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More than 7,200 aid applications poured into the Justice Department and, taken together, they say nearly 40,000 police officers could be laid off without federal help.

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When President Barack Obama signed the huge economic stimulus bill earlier this year, $1 billion was set aside to help local and state police avoid layoffs or keep their police academy classes intact.

The response has been staggering: Departments applied for more than $8.3 billion in aid, meaning only a fraction of the demand can actually be met.

July will be a nervous month for officials as they await word on how much aid they will get from the grant program known as COPS. The full name is Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.

The first award announcements are expected this month.

Through the Bush years, COPS was gradually cut away by Republicans who saw them as wasteful and argued that the money was used to hire fewer officers than Democrats claimed.

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Related Topics: Police, Public Finance, Domestic Policy, Federal Budget, Political Policy, Politics, U.S. Politics, Business, Taxes, Economic Policy, Government Spending, Jobs and Labor, Layoffs and Downsizing, Economic Stimulus


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