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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.