Political Quotes

“this amendment earmarks an additional $7.5 million in unobligated balances available in the Community Oriented Policing Services, known as the COPS program. This money goes into the COPS account to expand community prosecution programs across our Nation. As these dollars are unobligated, this amendment does not take away funding from other law enforcement priorities within the bill, and there are no budget cap implications. As many of my colleagues know, community prosecution programs provide a holistic approach to fighting crime neighborhood by neighborhood, community by community. They represent the next step in community-based crime prevention programs. Just as police officers are assigned to a beat under community policing programs, community prosecutors work with neighborhood residents and police on the beat to identify and preempt crime. Community prosecutors are assigned full-time to locations such as police stations, and work together with police on the beat and community leaders to develop innovative approaches to crime. By being involved in the community and utilizing their legal skills, community prosecutors are playing a role in reducing crime rates. Under community prosecution, crime victims, especially vulnerable populations such as the elderly and children, have a locally-based prosecutor who they know.…”