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handle is hein.crs/crsuntaaewi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code 97-196 GOV Updated March 6, 2003 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web The Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program: An Overview David Teasley and JoAnne O'Bryant Domestic Social Policy Division Summary The Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, administered by the Department of Justice (DOJ), provides financial assistance to eligible police departments to help improve community policing efforts. Under the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution for FY2003 (P.L.108-007), the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program is operating for another year with funding appropriated at $928.9 million for FY2003. The budget request for FY2004 is $163.7 million. The budget proposal includes a realignment of almost half of the programs administered under COPS to the Justice Assistance, Improving the Criminal Justice System under the Office of Justice Programs in DOJ. Although proponents argue that community policing involves a new approach to policing, the Department of Justice has been conducting research on this approach for many years. By late 1992, approximately 300 police departments nationwide reportedly incorporated elements of community policing in their law enforcement efforts. Congress approved legislation establishing the COPS grant program, namely the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1993 (P.L. 103-50) and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (P.L. 103-322). However, authority to make grants for hiring and rehiring officers through COPS expired in FY2000. Funding was appropriated for the COPS program for two fiscal years beyond the program expiration date. Reauthorization of the program remains uncertain. Legislation to reauthorize COPS, however, was introduced in the 108'h Congress (S.6). This report provides an overview of the COPS program, including a brief discussion of the establishment of the program, guidelines and requirements for grantees, and a summary of various Department of Justice initiatives under the COPS program. Updates on this report will be made as legislative action occurs. Establishment of the COPS Grants Program Police departments administer community policing programs to reduce and deter crime in neighborhoods and to help citizens feel safer in their communities. Some examples of community policing include police officers walking in a community; officers on bicycle patrol; more visible police cruisers; police satellite centers (in shopping Congressional Research Service *** The Library of Congress

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