Fellow Sacramento du'ers, Bush is cutting out police funding

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Cuts included in the Bush administration's proposed 2007 fiscal year budget could cost Sacramento-area law enforcement agencies millions of dollars in federal funding.
That would be an especially severe blow to Sacramento, where violent crime rose 10 percent from 2004 to 2005 and is on track to increase even more this year. There have been 45 recorded homicides in the city in 2006.
The proposed budget would cut or eliminate at least three programs that sent about $3.5 million to Sacramento-area agencies last year, according to federal reports.

The budget says the programs -- Community Oriented Policing Services, Byrne Justice Assistance Grants and the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program -- "do not have a record of producing results." It recommends that the federal government "reconsider whether they should be funded as spending priorities."

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