• The Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act passes both the House and the Senate, authorizing an $8.8 billion expenditure over six years. The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services is created to distribute and monitor these funds.
• COPS launches three new programs: Accelerated Hiring, Education, And Deployment (AHEAD), Funding Accelerated for Smaller Towns (FAST), and Making Officer Redeployment Effective (MORE).
• COPS awards $200 million to 392 agencies for 2,700 additional community policing professionals.
• Total program funding for fiscal year 1994: $148.4 million

Return to Top

• COPS funds 25,000 more officers.
• COPS announces the Universal Hiring Program (UHP), which incorporates FAST and AHEAD.
• COPS awards grants totaling $10 million through the Youth Firearms Violence Initiative.
• Total program funding for fiscal year 1995: $1,225.1 million

Return to Top

• COPS funds more than 52,000 officers through UHP.
• COPS announces its Anti-Gang Initiative and Community Policing to Combat Domestic Violence Program.
• COPS announces its Problem-Solving Partnership initiative.
• Total program funding for fiscal year 1996: $1,209.2 million

Return to Top

• COPS publishes and releases a report entitled Police Integrity: Public Service with Honor.
• COPS funding establishes a nationwide network of Regional Community Policing Institutes (RCPIs).
• Total program funding for fiscal year 1997: $983.9 million

Return to Top

• COPS has now funded 75,000 new community policing professionals nationwide.
• COPS introduces three new programs: Distressed Neighborhoods Pilot Project, Police Corps Program, and Small Communities Grant Program.
• COPS launches the Methamphetamine Program, through which it awards $34 million throughout the fiscal year.
• COPS awards a total of $38 million through its Technology Program.
• Total program funding for fiscal year 1998: $1,490.7 million

Return to Top

• COPS announces its COPS in Schools (CIS) grant program.
• COPS funds its 100,000th community policing professional in May of 1999.
• COPS announces its Tribal Resources Grant Program (TRGP).
• Total program funding for fiscal year 1999: $1,127.7 million

Return to Top

• COPS launches its Police as Problem-Solvers and Peacemakers program, through which it awards $1 million to five law enforcement agencies.
• COPS announces its Justice-Based After School (JBAS) and Value-Based Initiatives (VBI) programs.
• COPS awards $12 million to 41 state law enforcement agencies for the purchase of 2,900 in-car cameras.
• Total program funding for fiscal year 2000: $685.3 million

Return to Top

• COPS launches two new series of publications: COPS Innovations and Problem-Oriented Policing Guides.
• COPS awards $600,000 through JBAS to seven law enforcement agencies.
• COPS supports the NYPD and Arlington County Police Department as they respond to the September 11 attacks.
• Total program funding for fiscal year 2001: $558.1 million

Return to Top

• COPS awards more than $70 million through the Methamphetamine Program.
• COPS awards more than $154 million through the Technology Program.
• COPS announces $128 million in UHP grants that allow 367 agencies to hire 1750 community policing professionals.
• Total program funding for fiscal year 2002: $656.9 million

Return to Top

• COPS launches the Homeland Security Overtime Program (HSOP) and awards $59.6 million to 294 law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. 
• The Interoperable Communications Technology Program was created by COPS. Through this program COPS awarded $66.5 million to 14 communities to develop integrated communications networks among emergency response agencies within the city's metropolitan area. 
• COPS announces $178 million in UHP funding 364 agencies to hire 2,334 community policing professionals. 
• COPS announces over $41 million in CIS grants. These grants support 152 law enforcement agencies in the hiring of 348 school resource officers. 
• Total program funding for fiscal year 2003: $635 million.

Return to Top

• COPS awarded $47.2 million in grants through the Universal Hiring Program to be used by local police and sheriff's departments to hire additional officers. The grants were awarded to 178 law enforcement agencies, and will be used to hire 905 community policing officers.
• COPS allocated $4.6 million in funding for 19 jurisdictions to combat methamphetamine. The funds were awarded under COPS Methamphetamine Training Initiative, which assists law enforcement agencies in developing and enhancing comprehensive methamphetamine eradication strategies that emphasize training and technical assistance.
• More than $82 million in grants was awarded to 23 communities in 17 states to develop interoperable communication networks. The grants will cover the purchase of communication equipment, enhancements to communication infrastructures, data information sharing systems and project management expenses associated with upgrading interoperable communication systems.
• Awarded $24 million to 114 tribal law enforcement agencies in 24 states under COPS Tribal Resources Grant Program (TRGP).

Return to Top

• COPS awards more than $193 million to support tribal law enforcement agencies and community court initiatives
• COPS announces $10.2 million to fund the hiring of 65 community policing officers and 44 school Resource Officers 
• COPS awards $14.7 million in grants to 187 local law enforcement agencies through the Secure Our Schools program 
• COPS announces $92.7 million to 26 law enforcement agencies to develop interoperable data and communication networks

Return to Top

• COPS announces $14.8 million in grants to 174 local law enforcement agencies to enhance school safety 
• COPS awards more than $12 million in grants to support tribal law enforcement initiatives 
• COPS announces $8.8 million to enhance interoperable communication networks

Return to Top

• COPS announces $49.5 million in grants to fight methamphetamine 
• COPS awards $159 million to establish integrated voice and data communication networks in 37 metropolitan statistical areas 25 states and one U.S. territory 
• COPS announces $14.7 million in support of tribal law enforcement initiatives 
• COPS awards $14.8 million in grants to 152 local law enforcement agencies to enhance school safety 
• COPS distributed its millionth technical assistance publication to the law enforcement field

Return to Top