Calling Off the COPS

After 10 years, 118,000 new police officers on the streets, and millions of additional criminal arrests, COPS is coming to an end. COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) was a program that spent federal dollars to help local police departments add cops to do police work instead of paperwork. It was a pet project of President Clinton, but the Bush administration has made steep cutbacks in the program. It just handed out its last series of grants. (WashPost)