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Secure .gov websites use HTTPS Total COPS Office Appropriation for FY 2018: $303 million
In April 2018, Director Phil Keith joined the COPS Office after a distinguished career in law enforcement. He brings decades of experience to help the COPS Office shape its grants and resources to reflect the needs of the policing profession. He helped author the 1994 Crime Bill that created the COPS Office, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2019. In 2018, the COPS Office also received a $25 million appropriation through the STOP Act for school security initiatives.
Total COPS Office Appropriation for FY 2017: $221.5 million
In May 2017, the Justice Department – along with the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Homeland Security – announced the nationwide rollout of the National Blue Alert Network to enhance the safety and support of America’s law enforcement officers. Established and coordinated by the COPS Office, the National Blue Alert Network promotes rapid dissemination of information to law enforcement, the media and the public about violent offenders who have killed, seriously injured or pose an imminent threat to law enforcement, or when an officer is missing in connection with official duties. The COPS Office also awarded approximately $5.4 million in grant funding through the Preparing for Active Shooter Situations (PASS) Training Program to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University. This funding will increase law enforcement and public safety through scenario-based training that prepares officers and other first responders to safely and effectively handle active-shooter and other violent threats.
Total COPS Office Appropriation for FY 2016: $212 million
The COPS Office responded to various requests from law enforcement executives throughout the nation providing technical assistance under the Collaborative Reform Initiative and Critical Response efforts to enable implementation of the building blocks of community policing. The COPS Office partnered with Attorney General Lynch's office in the creation of a community policing tour that highlighted the successful efforts of police across the country to engage with diverse communities. The year culminated in a presidential proclamation creating the first National Community Policing Week. The week was capped with Attorney General's Community Policing Awards Ceremony.
Total COPS Office Appropriation for FY 2015: $208 million
The COPS Office spearheaded the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing by hosting Listening Sessions across the country, facilitating Task Force activities and compiling the Task Force's Final Report. In this way, the COPS Office leads the Administration's response to the challenges facing law enforcement and communities. The COPS Office incorporates the Task Force Report recommendations into its grant programs and launches the Policing Practices and Accountability Initiative (PPAI) in response to recommendation 7.3.
Total COPS Office Appropriation for FY 2014: $214 million
The COPS Office convenes the forum "Strengthening the Relationship between Law Enforcement and Communities of Color" and new COPS Office solicitations include the COPS Anti-Methamphetamine Program and the Collaborative Reform Initiative for Technical Assistance. New COPS Office solicitations for 2014 include the COPS Anti-Methamphetamine Program and the Collaborative Reform Initiative for Technical Assistance. The COPS Office celebrates its 20th anniversary of working with the law enforcement field to advance community policing.
Total COPS Office Appropriation for FY 2013: $222.5 million
Priority consideration for COPS Hiring Program funding is given to law enforcement agencies that focus on deploying school resource officers, hiring military veterans, and reducing homicide and gun violence The COPS Office awards nearly $500,000 to the Virginia Tech Family Outreach Foundation to develop a new comprehensive school safety model and training curriculum. The COPS Office has now disseminated more than two million training and technical assistance publications.
Total COPS Office Appropriation for FY 2012: $198.5 million
For any new hire positions awarded under the 2012 COPS Hiring Program, grantees are required to hire military veterans who served after 9/11 and who have been honorably discharged. In November, the COPS Office announces the completion and delivery of an eight-month Collaborative Reform review of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's use of force policies and practices. The report quickly becomes a key resource for other law enforcement agencies facing similar concerns. The COPS Office launches its own Twitter feed.
Total COPS Office Appropriation for FY 2011: $495 million
COPS Hiring Program applicants are asked to identify a public safety problem and describe in detail how they will use proven community policing strategies to address this problem. Grantees who receive a COPS Hiring grant are required to take the Community Policing Self-Assessment Tool at the beginning and end of the grant to create a comprehensive and objective picture of partnership, problem-solving, and organizational change successes, as well as areas that agencies may consider impriving upon.
Total COPS Office Appropriation for FY 2010: $791 million
The Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) is created and combines individual funding applications for OJP, OVW, and COPS Office tribal criminal justice assistance programs, allowing grantees to seek funding for all of their criminal justice needs through one application. The COPS Hiring Program is established as a follow-up to the Recovery Act-based COPS Hiring Recovery Program.
Total COPS Office Appropriation for FY 2009: $1.55 billion
The COPS Office awards $1 billion in Recovery Act funding to hire, rehire, or retain nearly 5,000 law enforcement positions through the COPS Hiring Recovery Program. In record time, the COPS Office develops a new online application system and responds to 17,626 telephone calls and 4,300 e-mails to make awards in July 2009. Demand for hiring funding is unprecedented in 2009, as the COPS Office receives more than 7,200 applications requesting more than $8 billion.
Total COPS Office Appropriation for FY 2008: $587 million
The COPS Office kicks off the Child Sexual Predator Program (CSPP) with nearly $16 million in grant funding. Congress created CSPP to locate, arrest, and prosecute child sexual predators. For the first time in three years, the COPS Office offers its Universal Hiring Program to help law enforcement agencies hire community policing officers.
Total COPS Office Appropriation for FY 2007: $541 million
The COPS Office distributes its millionth technical assistance publication to the law enforcement field. The COPS Office funds the development of the "West Side Story Project," an innovative law enforcement/theatre collaboration to work with schools and community organizations to develop a youth violence prevention initiative using the themes of the musical West Side Story.
