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For the story behind the story...
Sunday July 9, 2000; 11:24 PM EDT
Clinton COPS Money Wasted in Low Crime Areas
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 subtantial 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 less 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.
"Resident's 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.
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