http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw/map/arrest/1998/ncgtea.htm
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS
Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies
Enhancement Grant Award: FY 1998
North Carolina
AWARD RECIPIENT:
City of Durham
Durham, North Carolina
AWARD AMOUNT: $868,323*
PURPOSE: These funds will allow the Durham Police Department to continue and expand their Domestic Violence Unit by adding four police officer positions. Two teams will be created within the Domestic Violence Unit. One will focus on performing follow-up investigations and the other on assistance to patrol officers responding to domestic violence calls. The Durham Police Department will continue to work with the Orange/Durham Coalition for Battered Women and the Durham County District Attorney's Office to improve victims' services, provide law enforcement training, and increase the prosecution of domestic violence cases.
LOCAL CONTACT:
Charles Tiffin, Captain
Durham Police Department
505 West Chapel Hill Street
Durham, NC 27701
Do I understand this to mean that in addition to all the other insults this case brings, my federal tax money
is now contributing to Nifong's circus?
And can one sue to get that back?
(Can there be a class action suit by taxpayers claiming his negligent or fraudulent use of the money?)