The Lansing Police Department is set to receive more than $600,000 in Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) funding from the federal government to help police officers keep their jobs and fight crime.
According to excerpts from the article:
"Generally speaking, the rules are, we have to come to a memorandum of understanding with some other Ingham County-area police departments, the sheriff department, on how we're going to spend the money," said Lansing Police Chief Mark Alley.
Those rules are in place because the JAG grants come every year. Except this year, they're coming from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (or more commonly referred to as the 'stimulus').
Other local agencies will get varying amounts, including the Jackson Police Department getting about $140,000, East Lansing getting about $90,000, and Ingham County getting about $60,000.
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