[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2850 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2850

 To reduce illegal drug-related crimes in our Nation's communities by 
 providing additional Federal funds to develop and implement community 
policing and prosecutorial initiatives that address problems associated 
with the production, manufacture, distribution, importation, and use of 
                             illegal drugs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 12, 2000

   Mr. Robb introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To reduce illegal drug-related crimes in our Nation's communities by 
 providing additional Federal funds to develop and implement community 
policing and prosecutorial initiatives that address problems associated 
with the production, manufacture, distribution, importation, and use of 
                             illegal drugs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Oriented Policing Services 
Against Drugs Act''.

SEC. 2. COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES AGAINST DRUGS.

    Part Q of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:

``SEC. 1710. COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES AGAINST DRUGS.

    ``(a) Eligible Community Defined.--In this section, the term 
``eligible community'' means communities identified by the Attorney 
General under subsection (c).
    ``(b) Award of Grants.--The Attorney General may award grants in 
accordance with this part--
            ``(1) to local law enforcement agencies located in eligible 
        communities, which shall be used for programs, projects, and 
        activities--
                    ``(A) to hire additional community policing 
                officers and civilian personnel to aggressively 
                investigate drug-related crimes; and
                    ``(B) to pay overtime to existing law enforcement 
                officers, to the extent such overtime is devoted to 
                community policing efforts with respect to drug-related 
                crimes; and
            ``(2) to State and local prosecutors' offices located in 
        eligible communities and to prosecution programs in eligible 
        communities that augment community policing programs, which 
        shall be used to assist in the aggressive prosecution of drug-
        related crimes.
    ``(c) Identification of Eligible Communities.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Attorney General shall identify 
        eligible communities for purposes of subsection (a)(4), based 
        on--
                    ``(A) the extent to which the community is a center 
                of illegal drug production, manufacturing, importation, 
                distribution, or use;
                    ``(B) the extent to which State and local law 
                enforcement and prosecutorial authorities have 
                committed resources to the illegal drug problem in the 
                community, thereby indicating a need for additional 
                Federal resources to combat issues related to the 
                prevalence of illegal drugs;
                    ``(C) the extent to which illegal drug-related 
                activities in the community have an adverse impact on 
                other communities in the Nation; and
                    ``(D) the extent to which additional Federal 
                resources would assist, eliminate, or reduce illegal 
                drug-related activities in the community.
            ``(2) Use of certain data.--In carrying out paragraph (1), 
        the Attorney General shall utilize information from national 
        data sources (including the Uniform Crime Reports of the 
        Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Arrestee Drug Abuse 
        Monitoring (ADAM) program of the National Institute of 
        Justice), including data relating to--
                    ``(A) the number of arrests for drug possession or 
                drug sale in the community;
                    ``(B) the number of arrests for drug-related crime 
                in the community; and
                    ``(C) the number of arrestees testing positive for 
                illegal drug use in the community.
    ``(d) Small Community Preference.--In awarding grants under this 
section, the Attorney General may set aside 20 percent of award grants 
to applicants located in eligible communities with a population of less 
than 35,000.
    ``(e) Funding.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, 
of the amount made available to carry out this part, a total of 
$500,000,000 shall be used to carry out this section for fiscal years 
2001 through 2005.''.
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