Judd Gregg: “The COPS Program was designed to put 100,000 new police officers on the street. We have, in fact, put 110,000 new police…”

“The COPS Program was designed to put 100,000 new police officers on the street. We have, in fact, put 110,000 new police officers on the street. In addition, the program has been replaced in large part by the huge amount of increases that are going into the First Responder Program, into the Byrne grant, into the LEA grant, and into the local law enforcement effort overall. We are dramatically increasing money in these accounts. To continue a program that was supposed to fade out is totally inappropriate when we are already expanding the spending in these accounts by significant amounts.”