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106TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. 2850

To reduce illegal drug-related crimes in our Nation’s communities by providing

additional Federal funds to develop and implement community policing

and prosecutorial initiatives that address problems associated with the

production, manufacture, distribution, importation, and use of illegal

drugs.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

JULY 12, 2000

Mr. ROBB introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to

the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To reduce illegal drug-related crimes in our Nation’s communities by providing additional Federal funds to develop

and implement community policing and prosecutorial initiatives that address problems associated with the production, manufacture, distribution, importation, and use

of illegal drugs.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Community Oriented

5 Policing Services Against Drugs Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES

2 AGAINST DRUGS.

3 Part Q of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and

4 Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd et seq.) is

5 amended by adding at the end the following:

6 ‘‘SEC. 1710. COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES

7 AGAINST DRUGS.

8 ‘‘(a) ELIGIBLE COMMUNITY DEFINED.—In this sec9 tion, the term ‘‘eligible community’’ means communities

10 identified by the Attorney General under subsection (c).

11 ‘‘(b) AWARD OF GRANTS.—The Attorney General

12 may award grants in accordance with this part—

13 ‘‘(1) to local law enforcement agencies located

14 in eligible communities, which shall be used for pro15 grams, projects, and activities—

16 ‘‘(A) to hire additional community policing

17 officers and civilian personnel to aggressively

18 investigate drug-related crimes; and

19 ‘‘(B) to pay overtime to existing law en20 forcement officers, to the extent such overtime

21 is devoted to community policing efforts with

22 respect to drug-related crimes; and

23 ‘‘(2) to State and local prosecutors’ offices lo24 cated in eligible communities and to prosecution pro25 grams in eligible communities that augment commu-
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1 nity policing programs, which shall be used to assist

2 in the aggressive prosecution of drug-related crimes.

3 ‘‘(c) IDENTIFICATION OF ELIGIBLE COMMUNITIES.—

4 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall

5 identify eligible communities for purposes of sub6 section (a)(4), based on—

7 ‘‘(A) the extent to which the community is

8 a center of illegal drug production, manufac9 turing, importation, distribution, or use;

10 ‘‘(B) the extent to which State and local

11 law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities

12 have committed resources to the illegal drug

13 problem in the community, thereby indicating a

14 need for additional Federal resources to combat

15 issues related to the prevalence of illegal drugs;

16 ‘‘(C) the extent to which illegal drug-re17 lated activities in the community have an ad18 verse impact on other communities in the Na19 tion; and

20 ‘‘(D) the extent to which additional Fed21 eral resources would assist, eliminate, or reduce

22 illegal drug-related activities in the community.

23 ‘‘(2) USE OF CERTAIN DATA.—In carrying out

24 paragraph (1), the Attorney General shall utilize in25 formation from national data sources (including the
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1 Uniform Crime Reports of the Federal Bureau of

2 Investigation and the Arrestee Drug Abuse Moni3 toring (ADAM) program of the National Institute of

4 Justice), including data relating to—

5 ‘‘(A) the number of arrests for drug pos6 session or drug sale in the community;

7 ‘‘(B) the number of arrests for drug-re8 lated crime in the community; and

9 ‘‘(C) the number of arrestees testing posi10 tive for illegal drug use in the community.

11 ‘‘(d) SMALL COMMUNITY PREFERENCE.—In award12 ing grants under this section, the Attorney General may

13 set aside 20 percent of award grants to applicants located

14 in eligible communities with a population of less than

15 35,000.

16 ‘‘(e) FUNDING.—Notwithstanding any other provi17 sion of this title, of the amount made available to carry

18 out this part, a total of $500,000,000 shall be used to

19 carry out this section for fiscal years 2001 through

20 2005.’’.

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