William R. Richardson: “the debate on the crime bill is a choice between the President's 100,000 cops program and the Republican's pork ``do…”

“the debate on the crime bill is a choice between the President's 100,000 cops program and the Republican's pork ``do whatever you want with the money'' program for the States. Republicans are putting politics over public safety. They want to dismantle the community police program that our cities and small towns and our police officers need to fight crime. They want to deny the President the credit he deserves for a program that has great support among America's police officers, has already provided 17,000 new police officers in 4 months, has benefited small towns. Just last week the Justice Department announced that 6,500 small towns have gotten 7,100 new police officers, no matter how small the town. Mr. Speaker, it takes one page to fill out an application for a police officer and a decision can be made in less than 4 weeks. Mr. Speaker, let us put cops over pork.”