Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but I can't help but wonder how political leaders in Washington can continually praise the fine job law enforcement officers are doing fighting crime using needed federal dollars and at the same time drastically reduce the amount of funding they are going to hand out. We all know organized criminal gangs are using their expanding resources to engage in such illegal activity as drug trafficking to pour millions of dollars into their illicit coffers. As these thugs spread their activities across city, state and international lines it is only through well, financed, multi-jurisdictional task force operations that we can ever hope to stop them. Yet a very major funding source that fuels the fight against drugs and related violence and the community rot that is produced, the Byrne Grants, have been vitrually neutered by our leaders in Washington. The Byrne Justice Assistance Grant program that funds the interagency efforts. The federal program was cut 67 percent to $170 million for fiscal year 2008. This happens at a time when states and municipalities are struggling with diminishing cash and some local police departments are being not only stripped of resources and personnel but in some cases being eliminated as frustrated taxpayers look for higher layers to government "to serve and protect." Sure Washington funding is just taking money out of another pocket but it seems to me those pockets are very deep and they have been providing much needed funding. More than the funding though, these grants encourage pooling of resources into federal task force operations. Federal charges almost always result in longer and sure jail time for the scum we have to clean off our streets if we hope to reclaim large portions of our nation. I get very frustrated when I see progress being made and then I see slippage as the result of our inability to sustain programs which are working. Like everything else involving the politicans they love to talk about the issue, promose they'll do something about it, pose with the pens as they sign the legislation, smile as they hand out the checks and, when the press is attending to other matters, grab back the money and start all over again with some other issue. Let's look at what's working and keep it up without sucking money out of it before the job is complete.
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