Your tax dollars at work. It seems that nothing this man does works out. Something to bring up (no pun intended) when some idiot starts to brag about Clinton "putting 100,000 cops on the street".
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/7/9/222556
Clinton COPS Money Wasted in Low Crime Areas
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
It was one of the most highly touted accomplishments of President Clinton's first term.
But now the results are in on the White House's $9 billion program to put 100,000 new cops on America's streets. And it turns out that a substantial chunk of that money has been wasted, a Tennessee newspaper claims.
More than half of the funding, according to federal audits, has gone to small towns and rural communties with fewer than 10,000 residents, reported the Memphis Commercial Appeal on Sunday.
Many of the sparsely populated locales have crime rates so low that they never needed their own police departments. But they have them now, thanks to generous handouts under the Clinton administration's Community Oriented Policing Services program.
"Four Crittenden County (Ark.) towns, for instance, have received a little more than $1 million in COPS funds," reported the Commercial Appeal. "With a combined population of 1,337, they have employed the equivalent of as many as 15 full-time officers, or one officer for every 89 residents, according to federal documents."
The Clinton COPS gravy train even stopped in tiny Jenette, Ark. (pop. 84) where it dropped off $239,066 to fund a completely unnecessary police force.
"That's incredible," said Barry Gildea, research director for the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission. "For lack of a better word, it's overkill."
Major cities like Memphis, Tenn. (pop. 647,000), on the other hand, make due with just 1,806 officers under the Clinton crime program - or one cop for every 358 citizens.
Often it seems the Clinton COPS have so little to do they spend their time making life miserable for law-abiding residents.
"Almost from inception, the small-town forces brought complaints about overeager enforcement, speedtraps ... and 'overbearing and harassing' officers," the paper said.
Worse still, some local officials cut corners on police standards in a rush to spend the COPS make-work money.
"Residents in Olympian Village, Mo. (pop. 751) called in the the FBI for help and eventually disbanded their new police department."
That happened after Olympian Village's police chief kicked a resident during a dispute over his lawn, and was replaced with another lawman whom residents later learned was on probation for criminal destruction of property.
Sometimes the consequences are more dire.
One COPS officer in Edmondson, Ark., has been charged with first-degree felony battery after he beat up a local merchant, who has been in a coma ever since the May 8 assault. The merchant's crime according to several witnesses? He wagged his finger at the Clinton COP.
"One of the most serious deficiencies of the small-town COPS departments," said Terry Bolton, director of the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training, "is the failure to do proper background checks."
No wonder. The COPS program is administered by Attorney General Janet Reno.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/7/9/222556
Clinton COPS Money Wasted in Low Crime Areas
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
It was one of the most highly touted accomplishments of President Clinton's first term.
But now the results are in on the White House's $9 billion program to put 100,000 new cops on America's streets. And it turns out that a substantial chunk of that money has been wasted, a Tennessee newspaper claims.
More than half of the funding, according to federal audits, has gone to small towns and rural communties with fewer than 10,000 residents, reported the Memphis Commercial Appeal on Sunday.
Many of the sparsely populated locales have crime rates so low that they never needed their own police departments. But they have them now, thanks to generous handouts under the Clinton administration's Community Oriented Policing Services program.
"Four Crittenden County (Ark.) towns, for instance, have received a little more than $1 million in COPS funds," reported the Commercial Appeal. "With a combined population of 1,337, they have employed the equivalent of as many as 15 full-time officers, or one officer for every 89 residents, according to federal documents."
The Clinton COPS gravy train even stopped in tiny Jenette, Ark. (pop. 84) where it dropped off $239,066 to fund a completely unnecessary police force.
"That's incredible," said Barry Gildea, research director for the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission. "For lack of a better word, it's overkill."
Major cities like Memphis, Tenn. (pop. 647,000), on the other hand, make due with just 1,806 officers under the Clinton crime program - or one cop for every 358 citizens.
Often it seems the Clinton COPS have so little to do they spend their time making life miserable for law-abiding residents.
"Almost from inception, the small-town forces brought complaints about overeager enforcement, speedtraps ... and 'overbearing and harassing' officers," the paper said.
Worse still, some local officials cut corners on police standards in a rush to spend the COPS make-work money.
"Residents in Olympian Village, Mo. (pop. 751) called in the the FBI for help and eventually disbanded their new police department."
That happened after Olympian Village's police chief kicked a resident during a dispute over his lawn, and was replaced with another lawman whom residents later learned was on probation for criminal destruction of property.
Sometimes the consequences are more dire.
One COPS officer in Edmondson, Ark., has been charged with first-degree felony battery after he beat up a local merchant, who has been in a coma ever since the May 8 assault. The merchant's crime according to several witnesses? He wagged his finger at the Clinton COP.
"One of the most serious deficiencies of the small-town COPS departments," said Terry Bolton, director of the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training, "is the failure to do proper background checks."
No wonder. The COPS program is administered by Attorney General Janet Reno.