Seattle Times:
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced $1 billion in grants to help keep police officers on the beat during the economic downturn — and tried to assure cities not getting aid that they won’t be stiffed.
The aid announced by Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder is just a fraction of what police departments across the country had hoped to get. For every $1 to be delivered, another $7 in requests will go unanswered under the grant program, Community Oriented Policing Services, commonly called COPS.
Four major U.S. cities are finding this out the hard way: New York, Houston, Seattle and Pittsburgh are among those that will not get money because the Justice Department decided other parts of the country simply needed it more, officials said. Read more.
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Thanks to the Mayor for touting “Our crime rate is at it’s lowest level since the 60′s”BS over and over and over. BS’d our way right out of some money.
Again, you can do your part by voting out all current in-office elected officials. No Nickles!
Or dimes.
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