[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 39 (Wednesday, April 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: April 13, 1994]
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                        COMMUNITY-BASED POLICING

  (Mr. BISHOP asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BISHOP. Mr. Speaker, to restore sanity and security to the 
streets of America, I strongly support a tough and fair anticrime 
package that offers a balance between punishment and prevention and 
attacks the root causes of crime.
  But today, Mr. Speaker, I rise to sing the praises of Albany, GA, its 
police department, and the city administrators for their commitment to 
a community-based policing program that began just a few months ago. 
The city of Albany was a grant to begin a community-based policing 
pilot program. Their work has gone so well the Justice department 
invited them all to Washington this week.
  On Monday, 14 newly-hired officers and the public officials from 
Albany met with Attorney General Reno to discuss the positive aspects 
of community-based policing.
  The officers spoke openly and enthusiastically about the merits of 
their community-based policing effort.
  Communities outside the pilot area are now asking when they will be 
served by community-based policing.
  With this crime bill before us today, we can provide the other areas 
of Albany and the rest of America's crime-plagued communities the 
reinvigorating initiative of community-based policing that has proven 
successful in Albany, GA.
  Monday afternoon, Albany Police Lt. Earnest Williams said to 
President Clinton, that they are working with the community because 
they have dreams of seeing it become a safe, clean, quiet, and drug-
free place in which to live again.
  He humbly and sincerely implored us to pass an anticrime bill that 
includes the expansion of community-based policing.
  Today, I ask as his messenger, I urge all of my colleagues to pass a 
fair and tough crime bill that provides community-based policing for 
any community in America that needs it.

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