Posted on 12/23/2014 5:52:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Federal cash for Justice Department’s COPS program used for drones.
President Obama has used the Ferguson and NYPD controversies to campaign for increased community policing tactics. But on his watch, federal funding for such initiatives has plummeted and money has been mishandled or diverted to such things as drones that have done little to further the cause, a Washington Times review of federal documents shows.
The declining reach of the Justice Department’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program is laid bare by the results of its 2014 efforts: it managed to spend only $124 million to fund 944 community policing officers inside 215 departments, according to the department’s final statistics.
The agency’s goal was to have nearly 10 times the impact: 8,069 officers with more than $1.8 billion, according to the department’s own fact sheet. But since the 2011 budget crisis, the White House and congressional leaders have been unable to agree on the arc of the program, leaving it woefully underfunded when compared to its hey-day under former President Bill Clinton when as much as $1 billion annually was allocated to the effort....
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why would community policing cost more, this sounds like just another method of diverting tax dollars to the left again
The hell you say.
Obama has diverted a huge portion of the $6 billion that Bush set aside to fight E bola and then had the audacity to ask Congress for $6 Billion more to fight E bola, why didn’t he use what he had for what it was set aside for??
good question
Because He won.
“..this sounds like just another method of diverting tax dollars to the left again..”
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An ongoing crime for the past six years...and if America’s luck continues bad, two more years of the same.
These busy-work programs aren’t really expected to accomplish anything.
They are just a paper thin cover for more wealth redistribution to the moocher demographic.
Every city and country run by one of Eric Holder’s people is a cesspool of poverty, crime and corruption.
Time for some changes.
Time for some arrests. Time for some prison time. Time for some exiles. Time for...
Have a Merry Christmas!
As a non drinker, it seems I have come to a point that a drink might be appropriate; but what?...It is chaos out there. Even the 24/7 news is having arguments with guests over the protestors....Time for some sanity!
Arrest them all and bring them to trial.
Will 2015 bring joy or a worse case scenario?
A Very Merry Christmas to you as well!
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