How Will Municipal Police Agencies Be Impacted By Private, Community-based Funding Efforts by the Year 2000?

• NCJ Number: 128634
• Author(s): L R Dean
• Date Published: 1990
• Length: 72 pages
• Corporate Author: California Cmssn on Peace Officer Standards and Training
• Sale Source: NCJRS Photocopy Services; POST Media Distribution Ctr
• Publication Type: Report (Technical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Private funding for police services is examined based on the experience of the Morgan Hill Community Law Enforcement Foundation in Santa Clara County (Calif.).

Abstract

The foundation was formed as a nonprofit, community-based organization to provide program funding and free equipment for law enforcement and crime prevention in Morgan Hill, an affluent city of approximately 25,000. The foundation has raised more than $200,000, most of which is granted to the city police department. The present research examined the nature and concerns regarding these funding efforts, using nominal group techniques and a survey of California police managers. Results suggest that private funding efforts will proliferate in California and that if appropriate policies are developed, private funding can have a positive impact on California's municipal police agencies. Figures and appended lists of nominal group members and predicted events and trends