SCHUMER ANNOUNCES NEW YORK CITY RECEIVES NEARLY $6.5 MILLION TO HELP PREVENT AND COMBAT CRIME
Funding Awarded Through Justice Assistance Grant Program Will Help Prevent State and Local Crime
Schumer: This Funding Will Help Prevent Crime in New York City and Save Jobs in Our Communities - All residents New York to Benefit
On Friay, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced that the Department of Justice has awarded a total of $6,434,817 through the FY 10 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG) to New York City. The federal funds will be used for crime control and prevention programs.
"Keeping residents New York City safe is a top priority and providing cities with the resources to prevent and control crime is a critical step toward achieving that goal," Schumer said. "When it comes to protecting our citizens, we need to be tough on crime and smart on prevention. Funding initiatives like the Byrne Grants JAG program will make our communities safer and save or create jobs in the process." "This criminal justice grant money will help us further improve public safety, and we have used Byrne grant money to beef up gang intelligence in jails, hire more probation officers, and add new staff to the DNA lab," said Mayor Bloomberg. "The program also honors the memory of Eddie Byrne, a New York City Police Officer from the 103rd Precinct who was shot and killed on February 26, 1988 while protecting a witness who had agreed to testify in court against drug dealers, he was 22 years old." The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG) allows states, tribes, and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime based on their own local needs and conditions. Grant funds can be used for state and local initiatives, technical assistance, training, personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual support, and information systems for criminal justice for any one or more of the following purpose areas: 1) law enforcement programs; 2) prosecution and court programs; 3) prevention and education programs; 4) corrections and community corrections programs; 5) drug treatment programs; and 6) planning, evaluation, and technology improvement programs. #