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PHASE I AWARDS
Three hundred and ninety-two jurisdictions, located in all
50 states and Puerto Rico, received awards in this phase. Sixty-
eight awards totaling almost $104 million were made to
jurisdictions with populations of 150,000 or above. These
included $3 million grants to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department and the Honolulu Police, $2.5 million to the Puerto
Rico Police, a $2.1 million grant to the New York City Transit
Authority Police, and awards of $2 million or less to 64 cities
and counties.
Three hundred twenty-four awards totalling more than $96
million were made to jurisdictions with populations of less than
150,000. These included 19 grants to jurisdictions with
populations of 100,000 to 150,000; 62 to jurisdictions of 50,000
to 99,999; 83 to jurisdictions between 25,000 and 49,999; and 84
to jurisdictions of under 25,000 population.
Jurisdictions receiving awards today include:
* the New York City Transit Authority, which will use 28 new
officers to patrol buses in addition to subways;
* Navassa, North Carolina, which will use the grant to start a
police department;
* Whittier, Alaska, population 294, surrounded by glaciers and
accessible only by rail or ship, but prone to significant
seasonal drug and crime problems;
* the Lummi Indian Reservation Nation in Washington, which
will use the grant to assign full-time officers to fight
escalating domestic violence and youth crime; and
* many jurisdictions that will deploy community policing
officers on foot, on bicycles, in schools and in public
housing projects.
GRANT FUNDING
In order to make funds available for many jurisdictions,
today's awards include an overall cap on the amount of the award.
The federal share for each officer may not exceed the greater of
75 percent of the total salary and benefits over the three-year
life of the grant, up to a maximum of $75,000; or 50 percent of
the total salary and benefits for the life of the grant. Phase I
recipients may spend grant money only on salaries and benefits.
Provisions were made to reduce or waive the local share
requirement for jurisdictions requesting and documenting
extraordinary economic hardships. Sixteen of today's award
recipients will receive waivers.
FUTURE AWARDS
The crime bill authorizes a total of $8.8 billion for police
hiring grants, approximately $200 million of which was announced
today. An additional $1.1 billion in grants will be announced
over the next twelve months. Applications and program criteria
are expected to be available later this Fall, and every
jurisdiction in the nation will be eligible whether or not they
have applied for or received a grant.
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