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Texas shortchanged on COPS grant funding

Since Governor Perry has been disdainful of federal stimulus funds, one supposes he won't be too unhappy that Texas got stiffed on the Department of Justice's COPS hiring grants for new police officers. Though Texas makes up 7.87% of the population nationally, we received just 3.89% of total COPS grants representing 4.17% of all the officers awarded, according to this state-level fact sheet (pdf) from DOJ about the grants announced yesterday. See information on other states here.I've got mixed feelings that this straight-up pork-barrel funding wasn't doled out somewhat closer to Texas' percentage of the population. Granted, I'm not a big fan of this program and don't think it's necessarily wise for cities to take the money, but when our tax dollars head off to Washington I'd generally prefer they come back downstream at least somewhat proportionally...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 29, 2009 (boomark / email).