THE WHITE HOUSE: Clinton/Gore administration's agenda for communities -- Crime/Drugs.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-1 February 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- Clinton/Gore administration's agenda for communities -- Crime/Drugs (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:290199 * 21st Century Policing Initiative In order to keep crime coming down to record low levels and the number of officers walking the beat at an all-time high, the President is committing nearly $1.3 billion for a new 21st Century Policing Initiative.

The new 21st Century Policing Initiative builds on the President's successful COPS program by: (1) helping communities to hire and redeploy between 30,000 and 50,000 more law enforcement officers over five years, with an effort to target new police officers to crime "hot spots" and to help retain those officers recently...