During his 2020 presidential campaign, President Joe Biden pledged to invest $300 million in the Community Oriented Policing Program. A look at the last three years shows he's invested more than double that figure. 

The Justice Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services helps local jurisdictions hire law enforcement officers and implement community policing principles. It was created by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. 

The program's funding for fiscal year 2021, which was determined before Biden took office, was $386 million. Biden signed spending bills that increased funding to $511 million in fiscal year 2022 and about $662.9 million in both fiscal years 2023 and 2024, according to numbers reflected in the following years' reports. 

Collectively, that's a three-year increase of about $678.8 million, or more than twice the $300 million Biden had promised.

In his fiscal year 2025 budget proposal, Biden requested $534 million for the program, reflecting a funding decrease that stems from the termination of what the administration described as one-time projects involving technology and equipment that had been funded in fiscal year 2023. 

Even with that cut, Biden's proposal would bring his four-year investment to $826.8 million.

Biden far exceeded the amount he promised to invest in COPS. We rate this a Promise Kept. 

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