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October 23, 2005
GAO report assesses value of COPS Grants
A report published this month (October 2005) by the US Government Accountability Office assesses the value of COPS grants.
Available here (pdf file)
Why the GAO did this study: Between 1994 and 2001, the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) provided more than $7.6 billion in grants to state and local communities to hire police officers and promote community policing as an effective strategy to prevent crime. Studies of the impact of the grants on crime have been inconclusive. [...]
From the Concluding Observations: While we find that COPS expenditures led to increases in sworn police officers above levels that would have been expected without these
expenditures and through the increases in sworn officers led to declines in crime, we conclude that COPS grants were not the major cause of the decline in crime from 1994 through 2001. [...] Nevertheless, our analysis shows that COPS grant expenditures did reduce crime during the 1990s.
Posted by Emma at October 23, 2005 09:36 AM
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