NCJ Number
173519
Date Published
1997
Length
35 pages
Annotation
This report reviews issues related to the design, operation, and management of the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant program.
Abstract
The report reviews implementation of the Community Policing Act of 1994 with special attention to statutory requirements for implementing COPS grants. The report: (1) assesses how the COPS Office monitored the use of grants it awarded; (2) describes the distribution of COPS grants nationwide by population size of jurisdiction served, by type of grant, and by State; (3) describes how law enforcement agencies used grants under the COPS Making Officer Redeployment Effective (MORE) program; (4) describes the process the COPS Office used to calculate the number of officers on the street; and (5) describes funding distributions and uses of COPS hiring grants by special law enforcement agencies. In addition, the report describes how community policing was implemented in several communities that received COPS grants. The report includes findings from evaluations of COPS-related activities in Washington, D.C; Los Angeles and Oxnard, CA; Prince Georges County, MD; St. Petersburg, FL; and Window Rock, AZ (Navajo Nation). Notes, tables, figures, appendixes