Sec. 2. Findings and purpose
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Congress finds that— law enforcement officers provide a necessary public service by enforcing the rule of law, preventing crime and civil disorder, protecting communities and property, and ensuring the safety and health of the people of the United States, including by ensuring— the safe operation of motor vehicles; the safe use of public routes of transportation, such as highways and other roadways, pedestrian walkways, and sidewalks; and that parks remain safe, open, civil, and available for public enjoyment; police forces and other law enforcement entities require full funding to ensure a sufficient presence of officers to maintain the safe use of public roadways, highways, walkways, sidewalks, and city blocks in every community across the United States; absent a fully funded police force, people using roadways, community parks, city sidewalks, or other public areas may be placed at increased risk from— the unsafe operation of motor vehicles, including by themselves or others; and other dangers to public safety; a fully funded police force is necessary to protect— the public safety of the general population of a community; and law enforcement officers in the community, as required by Executive Order 13774 (82 Fed. Reg. 10695; relating to preventing violence against Federal, State, Tribal, and local law enforcement officers); defunding or otherwise reducing funding for State or local law enforcement entities will result in a reduction in, or the elimination of, the presence of law enforcement officers in communities, resulting in a State being noncompliant with the safety requirements of certain Federal programs, including the requirements of— the highway safety programs under section 402 of title 23, United States Code; and the national priority safety programs under section 405 of title 23, United States Code; and it is necessary to ensure that State and local governments do not defund or otherwise reduce funding for police forces and other law enforcement entities absent a clear budgetary need to do so.
The purpose of this Act is to provide authority for the Secretary, in consultation with the Attorney General, to withhold certain funds from State and local governments that unnecessarily put the people subject to the jurisdiction of those governments at risk from a lack of sufficient law enforcement resources, including the presence of law enforcement officers, by defunding or otherwise reducing funding for police forces or other law enforcement entities absent a clear budgetary need to do so.
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- 82 FR 10695
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