so i searched through the budget proposal to find the

Posted on: May 16, 2024 at 12:54:04 CT

relevant portion and this is all it says in its entirety:

Reduce funding for Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

COPS was created in the 1990s as a means to support state and local law enforcement agencies
with expenses like salaries, court programs, and juvenile justice programs.509 Conservatives support
our men and women and blue but should question whether the government should involve itself in
state and local law enforcement, even if it is only a matter of funding. In recent years, we have seen
elected officials in urban areas vilifying their law enforcement officers, disincentivizing any new
police recruits. While COPS funding goes to small towns and big cities alike, it is unfair to provide
funding to larger cities that championed major cuts to their police budgets. In one example, San
Francisco’s mayor announced that she would cut the city’s police budget by $120 million. Later in
2021, San Francisco received a $6.25 million COPS Hiring Program grant.511 The same story applies
to D.C. In 2020, the city council approved a $15 million cut to the city’s police budget only later
to receive a $3.125 million COPS Hiring Program grant.

The federal government should not bail
out cities that wish to cut their police budgets, so the RSC Budget would support a reduction to this
program

Edited by blake1771 at 13:16:13 on 05/16/24