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Vehicle Ops
Gas Pains
When law enforcement agencies were putting together their fiscal year budgets for 2008, few municipal or county administrators could have forecast the impact of skyrocketing gas prices.
June 30, 2008
Patrol
5 Tips for Funding New Patrol Equipment
What should you do when you've been told there isn't enough money to purchase equipment? Re-allocation is often the solution. These five tips outline a budgetary fiscal-fitness program that can move equipment budgets from flabby to fit.
March 15, 2012
Patrol
Why Budgets Matter
Some officers don't think budgets affect them, so why should they care? I've even heard budgets compared to diets. Seriously? Budgets are important in every aspect of our lives. Ignoring them doesn't change their importance. Inaction may cause panic.
April 23, 2012
Patrol
Feds Fund Hiring of 1,000 Local Officers
The DOJ's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) office awarded the grants to 238 law enforcement agencies and municipalities. The awards will create or help preserve 1,021 sworn law enforcement positions.
September 28, 2011
Careers
Budgets, Needs, and Wants
You need to weigh criticality versus frequency in making this decision. How critical is it for you to have this widget? Will your life and survival depend on it? If not, reconsider.
June 1, 2009
Command
COPS Office Fiscal Year 2020 Grant Solicitation Deadlines Extended
The Department of Justice COPS Office has extended the solicitation deadline for several open grant programs due to the potential impact of jurisdictional emergency responses to COVID-19 that may cause reasonable delays for applicants.
March 18, 2020
Patrol
New State Forfeiture Law Cuts into New Mexico Agencies' Budgets
And agencies won't be compensated for storage or shipment of seized items, an expense the Farmington Police Department hasn't yet calculated, Chief Steve Hebbe said. That is an unfunded mandate, he said.
July 7, 2015
Patrol
How to Deal with Shrinking Budgets
If you are a "cup is half full" person, then having the right perspective, attitude, and imagination can conquer the frustration of an ever-shrinking budget. It is possible to still make things happen.
June 15, 2014
Patrol
CBP Announces Current Totals for Drug Seizures for Fiscal Year 2019
Ten months into Fiscal Year 2019 (October 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019), officials with the Customs and Border Patrol working at the nation’s more than 300 ports of entry have seized more than 91,900 pounds of cocaine, 2,292 pounds of fentanyl, 65,400 pounds of methamphetamine and 4,500 pounds of heroin.
August 21, 2019
Training
NYPD Swamped With New Candidates, Reduced Hiring Budgets
A flood of diverse candidates are applying for patrol jobs with the New York Police Department, which has seen its hiring budget dwindle due to the impact of the recession, the New York Times reports.
November 18, 2009
Technology
Survey Results Suggest Limited Budgets Slow Law Enforcement's Adoption of Crime-Fighting Software
When Wynyard asked nearly 300 police chiefs, federal investigators, analysts, and other high-ranking law enforcement officials if they were using crime-fighting software, only 35 percent said yes; of those departments that were using crime-fighting software, 63 percent were using it to fight drug-related crimes. In the departments that were not using crime-fighting software, 70 percent said they would use it to fight drug crimes if they had it.
October 24, 2014
Technology
Cummins Allison Helps Agencies Return Buy Money to Their Budgets
Cummins Allison, innovator and provider of check, currency, and coin handling solutions, has announced the availability of its Doc Find software. The new application is paired with the JetScan iFX currency scanner to allow law enforcement agencies to quickly and easily pull out buy money from a seizure and get it back into their budgets.
November 11, 2015
Patrol
Biden Says He Wants to Add Millions to Local Police Budgets for Community Policing
“I not only don’t want to defund the police, I want to add $300 million to their local budgets to deal with community policing to get police and communities back together again,” he said.
September 2, 2020
Patrol
Dismantling Law Enforcement
The protests over the George Floyd in-custody death quickly shifted from "Justice for George" to defunding and even abolishing police departments.
June 17, 2020
Patrol
Washington Turns on the Money Tap
With tax revenues declining and budgets under water, many agencies are feeling the strain. But help is on the way.
March 31, 2009
Editor's Notes
Washington Turns on the Money Tap
The economic stimulus package pumps nearly $4 billion into state, local, and tribal law enforcement. But is that a good thing?
April 2, 2009
Training
The Chief Trainer
You are a chief or sheriff. Get real and train with your officers. You should be one of the first enrolled in your defensive tactics and subject control training classes. Your attendance and participation will speak to all, and what it will say is this stuff is real and it's important.
October 2, 2013
Patrol
Police Militarization: An Argument in Favor of LBVs, APCs, and 1033
The debate on "militarization" of American law enforcement has deep history. However, the discussion should now turn to the future of public safety in the United States.
February 14, 2020
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