IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 108 
Supporting the Weed and Seed and COPS programs. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 30, 2007 
Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the Weed and Seed and COPS programs. 
Whereas Weed and Seed is an innovative, comprehensive, 
multi-agency approach to law enforcement, crime preven-
tion, and community revitalization; 
Whereas Weed and Seed is foremost a strategy that aims to 
prevent, control, and reduce violent crime, drug abuse, 
and gang activity; 
Whereas the four fundamental principles that underlie the 
Weed and Seed strategy are collaboration, coordination, 
community participation, and leveraging of resources; 
Whereas the Weed and Seed strategy is a two-pronged ap-
proach, with law enforcement agencies and prosecutors 
cooperating to ‘‘weed out’’ violent criminals and drug 
abusers, while public agencies and community-based pri-
vate organizations collaborate to ‘‘seed’’ much needed 
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human services, including prevention, intervention, treat-
ment, and neighborhood restoration programs; 
Whereas the United States Attorneys Offices play a leader-
ship role in the Weed and Seed strategy by organizing 
local officials, community representatives, and other key 
stakeholders; 
Whereas every Weed and Seed site is required to establish a 
Safe Haven, a multi-service center (often housed in a 
school or community center) where many youth- and 
adult-oriented services are delivered; 
Whereas promoting the long-term health of communities is an 
important goal of Weed and Seed; 
Whereas, despite the fact that the Weed and Seed program 
was not authorized until January 5, 2006, in title II of 
the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice 
Reauthorization Act of 2005, the program has been re-
ceiving Federal funding through appropriations actions 
since fiscal year 1993; 
Whereas Weed and Seed received approximately $58,000,000 
in Federal funding for the period from fiscal year 2002 
through fiscal year 2004, and $62,000,000 in fiscal year 
2005, an increase of 7 percent from fiscal year 2004; 
Whereas in fiscal year 2006, Federal funding for Weed and 
Seed decreased to $50,000,000, a decrease of 19 percent 
from fiscal year 2005, and the Administration requested 
a decrease to $49,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; 
Whereas to maintain an effective program, the ‘‘weeding’’ 
and ‘‘seeding’’ activities must complement each other, 
and should be part of an overall strategy to reduce crime, 
increase public safety, and improve neighborhoods; 
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Whereas a community-oriented policing component bridges 
the ‘‘weeding’’ and ‘‘seeding’’ elements of the Weed and 
Seed strategy; 
Whereas community-based strategies for solving crime prob-
lems foster a sense of responsibility within the commu-
nity and help develop cooperative relationships between 
the police and residents; 
Whereas community policing embraces the two key concepts 
of community engagement and problem solving; 
Whereas the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) 
program was created by title I of the Violent Crime Con-
trol and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, and on January 
5, 2006, was reauthorized through fiscal year 2009 in the 
Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Re-
authorization Act of 2005; 
Whereas, since its creation in 1994, the COPS program has 
been the driving force in implementing a locally-defined 
vision of community policing in nearly 75 percent of the 
18,000 law enforcement agencies in the Nation; 
Whereas the COPS program has funded more than 118,400 
police officers and sheriff’s deputies, more than 104,150 
of whom are on the beat; 
Whereas the COPS program has funded large and small ju-
risdictions, with 87 percent of COPS grantees serving 
populations of less than 50,000; 
Whereas appropriated funding for the COPS program was 
more than $1,000,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
1995 through 2002 (with the exception of fiscal year 
2000, when $595,000,000 was appropriated), but since 
fiscal year 2002, appropriated funding for the COPS pro-
gram has been decreasing; 
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Whereas the decrease in funding for the COPS program 
began in fiscal year 2002, when the program was again 
funded at just over $1,000,000,000, and funding contin-
ued to decline to $929,000,000 in fiscal year 2003, to 
$749,000,000 in fiscal year 2004, to $507,000,000 in fis-
cal year 2005, and finally to $391,500,000 in fiscal year 
2006; and 
Whereas the Administration’s request for the COPS program 
of $102,000,000 for fiscal year 2007, is 13 percent less 
than the amount requested in fiscal year 2006, and the 
Administration requested a $127,500,000 rescission for 
the COPS program for fiscal year 2007: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) encourages the establishment of more Weed 
and Seed program sites; and 
(2) urges increased budget authority to fully 
fund any request by a community for help from the 
Weed and Seed and COPS programs. 
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