Frank Pallone: “I cannot think of any program that has been more successful. I know in my hometown, we have had the opportunity to hire…”

“I cannot think of any program that has been more successful. I know in my hometown, we have had the opportunity to hire a lot of additional policemen. The crime rate has gone way down. These are community police officers. They have to be out on the street. Basically the only requirement is that there be some local match to pay for the police officers, and that the police officers, you know, have certain benefits and that they serve in the community policing capacity. In other words, they cannot stay in the headquarters. They have to be out on the street, I think maybe in police cars or on the sidewalk, but out there with the community. And it has been fantastic, the number of people that have been hired around the country and the impact on the crime rate. It has gone down significantly. And all the Federal Government really does is to provide the funding, and the communities are clamoring for this.”