Associate Attorney General, Tom Perelli, recently stated that $1.1 billion of the $4 billion in law enforcement grant, provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, has already been disbursed. Perelli also noted that applications for requested grant money, which can be used for hiring new officers, creating crime prevention programs, and purchasing and installing new law enforcement technology, now exceed 8.3 billion.

It isn’t hard to do the math on this. Although your department may have requested funds, those funds may not be available. In fact, it looks like more than half of the requests for federal law enforcement grants may be denied.

Source: http://thecrimereport.org/2009/05/28/11-billion-spent-on-justice-under-stimulus-law/

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