FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                          AG
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1996                             (202) 616-2765
                                               TDD (202) 514-1888


                            FACT SHEET

      ATTORNEY GENERAL RENO SPEAKS TO L.A. POLICE GRADUATION

New Officers Part of Administration's Effort To Put 100,000 Cops to the
Nation's Streets

     Attorney General Janet Reno is in Los Angeles today to
deliver the keynote address to the graduating class of the Los
Angeles Police Department.

     Eighty-nine Los Angeles police officers, all of them funded
through the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services (COPS), are graduating.  The new
officers are funded under President Clinton's 1994 Crime Act,
which is paying for 100,000 additional police and sheriffs'
deputies on the nation's streets -- nearly a 20 percent increase
in America's police ranks.

      Los Angeles City and Los Angeles County have been awarded
more than $81 million to hire and redeploy 1,689 officers.  Of
that, more than $70 million, 1,559 officers, has been awarded to
the Los Angeles Police Department.  In California, $216 million
of funding has been announced to hire and redeploy 4,654
additional officers to the street.  

     Nationwide, more than $1.6 billion has been authorized to
add more than 33,000 officers to the nation's streets.


NOTE:     THIS RELEASE INCLUDES CORRECTED POLICE HIRING GRANT         FIGURES.

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