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Research Challenges Claim of COPS Effectiveness

David B. Muhlhausen –
April 4, 2002
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For the past eight years, the most prominent of all federal crime-prevention initiatives has been the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program. The COPS program was instituted to give grants to state and local law enforcement agencies to help them reduce crime by increasing community policing services. Its stated goal was to put 100,000 additional officers on America's streets.