Exclusive: Tom Cotton Plan Siphons $50B from Biden Spending Package to Fund More Police

Breitbart ^ | July 20, 2021 | John Binder

[yoe]

As crime in the United States continues climbing, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is looking to allocate $50 billion from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion spending package to fund more police officers in localities and states.

On Tuesday, Cotton introduced the Fund the Police Act, (obtained) by Breitbart News, that would use about $50 billion in unspent funding from Biden’s American Rescue Plan to establish a “Law Enforcement Support Trust Fund” at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to continuously support federal grants to local and state police.

Likewise, Cotton’s plan would give $1 billion each to the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, known as Byrne JAG grants, and the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office grants.

Annually, the DOJ law enforcement trust created by Cotton’s legislation would be supplemented by $500 million to go toward Byrne JAG and COPS grant programs.

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"“Democrats are eager to rewrite history and hide their advocacy for ‘defunding the police,’ but creating a bailout slush fund and funding law enforcement are not the same thing,” Cotton said in a statement. “My bill will immediately fund two federal grant programs to support police officers and establish a trust to maintain these grants for decades to come.”

Oh yeah! Senator Thomas Bryant Cotton, you GO! De-fund De Poleece, mantra is already being blamed on former PRESIDENT DJ TRUMP and the crime rate is up under the Biden Administration....

[Jonny7797]

So federally funded police. Back door federalization in the name of safety.

[Paladin2]

Giving more money to the DoJustUs is an unforced error.

The DoJ needs to be defunded.

[AnthonySoprano]

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The Police funds go to gangs in big cities - and it’s budgeted under LE funding.

They call them Violence Interrupters, but it’s simply money for gangs. Surprise, surprise, it’s led to far more Crime.

And the Police Chiefs they hire are Leftist Loons.

I am extremely skeptical.

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[yoe]

Senator Cotton at least is trying; go here and re-read some of the facts and don't forget Rudolph W. Giuliani had his law license politically suspended....ask yourself WHO IS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY? (‘This is really fantastical’: Federal judge in Michigan presses Trump-allied lawyers on 2020 election fraud claims in sanctions hearing).

(Cardona retreats) from making critical race theory part of new school grants. He should be fired for attempting it! Parents don't you know what racism looks like...is? Biden should be impeached for throwing the United States Constitution under the buss/i.e. ignoring it altogether...he and his gang of Marxists/Socialists...and crooked family....look in the mirror, some of you will see who is destroying America.

[Hojczyk]

The red states will now pay for police in democratic run cities....it is time for the red states to take in all money that goes to the IRS and just send DC money for defense and a few other things....

You send the IRS form and money to the state you live in and they keep the money and send the form on to the IRS...

The only way to drain the swamp is set ridd of the money

[teevolt]

I thought the exact same thing. Do not federally fund police. This is a stupid move.

[amnestynone]

If Democrats want to defund the police let them. Let them learn from their own mistakes.

[RAldrich]

So what happens is - the local government takes the money they had already budgeted for the police, then transfers it to curry favor with some group of supporters (like gay support organizations, solar panel manufacturers, casinos, etc.), and the money they siphoned off that was originally intended for the police is replaced with the Federal money.

Money is fungible. Like raising local taxes ostensibly for one purpose, which has support, and then doing a slick under-the-table transfer to a group of favored campaign supporters. Happens all the time.

Localities should be made to fund their local police forces themselves, not be encouraged to sponge funding for the police from the Federal government.