Posted November 21, 2017 5:00 pm by Comments

By Chris Eger

In all, the awards will fund 802 new full-time law enforcement positions in 179 agencies across the nation, with an eye towards community policing. (Photo: Dept. of Justice)
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday announced the awards for the Justice Department’s Community Oriented Policing Services program, which gives federal dollars to up the number of street cops.
In all, some $98.4 million in grants were awarded to 179 city, county and tribal law enforcement agencies from coast to coast with an eye towards funding 802 new positions. Sessions earlier this year announced the awards process would focus “priority consideration” on issuing the awards to departments that were willing to play ball with federal authorities on immigration laws, and announced that most of the grants greenlighted by Washington met these criteria.
“Cities and states that cooperate with federal law enforcement make all of us safer by helping remove dangerous criminals from our communities,” said Sessions in a statement. “Today, the Justice Department announced that 80 percent of this year’s COPS Hiring Program grantees have agreed to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in their detention facilities.”
The awards on average provide about $125,000 per-position to each department, with most grants for a single new officer.

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