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The Wimpy Approach to funding local police: Federal COPS grants

You'd think that in the wake of the Wall Street financial crisis in subprime lending, by now everyone would have figured out that the pitch "buy now, pay later" - call it the Wimpy approach, from the character in the Popeye cartoon who routinely promised, "I'll gladly pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today" - is a recipe for higher costs down the line than one's income base can support. It takes more than one little downturn, though, to kill a bad idea, because that's the fundamental premise behind the feds' COPS program, which yesterday announced grants for 1,400 officer positions nationwide and 158 in Texas, including 50 in Houston and even a few in my hometown. From Juan Lozano at AP:The grants will pay officers' salaries for three years...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 01, 2010 (boomark / email).