The grant funding being announced Thursday through the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services will be awarded to 183 law enforcement agencies across the country and in U.S. territories. The funding is meant to help police departments reduce crime and to encourage community policing.
The grant awards come as police departments across the U.S. have been facing budget reductions, with cities struggling with ballooning costs from the coronavirus pandemic and national calls to reduce police funding in favor of spending more money on social services. Several police agencies have also delayed or canceled police academy classes, which is likely to leave a number of jobs unfilled as other officers retire.
The Justice Department said it received nearly 600 applications from police departments in nearly every state and U.S. territory. The grant requires that the money be used to hire additional officers, other than those who would normally be hired using a police department’s operating budget. The money was being provided to police departments both large and small. For example, the grant provides funds for an additional 50 officers in San Francisco, Chicago, Cincinnati and Houston. New Orleans, Cleveland and St. Paul, Minnesota, would receive 30 new officers, and other smaller forces receive a few new officers.
All that money should of went to a homeless reform for citizens and veterans living on the streets …not the police…. Police has more then enough QL budget. Adding another 1,000 officers just adding more pensions, pay checks and benefits that the government can’t afford to pay.
I guess defund the police was just a pipe dream
There is a GOD!
No defunding here?
This is what happens when neoliberal Democrats are in charge -- we are basically run by Republican Lites.
That does not at all sound like defunding…
Please give them physiological test and train not to jump to conclusions! 🙏 Thanks to those willing to put their lives on the line for public safety .
I’d be excited if I didn’t know domestic abusers and racists in my home town are becoming/ recently became cops LimaProud
We really do live in an authoritarian police state, don't we....
So Democrats are funding the police again? Lmao, BLM. The election is over, you’re done.
America. WashingtonDC: JusticeDepartment: Grant. TheJusticeDept: $139,000,000 for New Cops Lawrence Maddow.
It seems like the defund of the police didn’t work… Who would thought that? 🤔 (I’m being sarcastic)
That is a a POSITIVE Picture for Everyone, Are Police Offereres are under attack by the media, it's time to turn that around ,🇱🇷
Democrats have made this country looking like we're all on the left.Embarrassing .Not true world, BTW, who's watching the parents today.?
'The funding is meant to help police departments reduce crime and to encourage community policing. The grant requires that the money be used to hire additional officers, other than those who would normally be hired using a police department’s operating budget.'
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Every Republican in both chambers of congress voted no on the funding for this
Should require college degrees at min. Preferably need graduate degrees in terrorism, social work, JD and maybe even MD. HS diploma and or 2 semesters of college and have job that you're all of the above but worse ain't it. Raise the bad. Good cops.
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