Muskegon Heights seeks grant to rehire police officers
"Muskegon Heights is in the running for a federal grant that would allow the city to restore all, or at least most, of the 11 police officers laid off Jan. 1.
Police Chief Clifton Johnson said the city has submitted a grant application for the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services hiring recovery program, also known as COPS. Federal officials have indicated that a decision about the Heights application will be made by September.
'We're hopeful,' Johnson said. 'Nothing is in stone, and many other agencies are going through the same thing.'
The city council in December voted to lay off 11 police officers -- nearly half of its force -- in a budget-cutting decision that is saving the city about $400,000 in 2009. Without the layoffs and cuts in other departments, city officials were projecting a budget deficit as high as $600,000.
Six full-time officers and five part-time officers were laid off.
The city has already received word that it will receive a federal grant this year that will allow the police department to buy new weapons for officers, Johnson said. That grant is worth $115,629."
A perfect example of how the "grant" concept has destroyed our country at every level.
There is money for police guns but not for actual police because each grant has a specific goal.
Target spending as our friends in the democrat party so often remind us.
"Muskegon Heights is in the running for a federal grant that would allow the city to restore all, or at least most, of the 11 police officers laid off Jan. 1.
Police Chief Clifton Johnson said the city has submitted a grant application for the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services hiring recovery program, also known as COPS. Federal officials have indicated that a decision about the Heights application will be made by September.
'We're hopeful,' Johnson said. 'Nothing is in stone, and many other agencies are going through the same thing.'
The city council in December voted to lay off 11 police officers -- nearly half of its force -- in a budget-cutting decision that is saving the city about $400,000 in 2009. Without the layoffs and cuts in other departments, city officials were projecting a budget deficit as high as $600,000.
Six full-time officers and five part-time officers were laid off.
The city has already received word that it will receive a federal grant this year that will allow the police department to buy new weapons for officers, Johnson said. That grant is worth $115,629."
A perfect example of how the "grant" concept has destroyed our country at every level.
There is money for police guns but not for actual police because each grant has a specific goal.
Target spending as our friends in the democrat party so often remind us.
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