Crime rates, particularly violent crimes such as murder, rape and robbery, peaked around 1991 and 1992, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports. Major crime topics of the era included drug abuse and the War on Drugs, remnants of the crack epidemic of the late 1980s, and increases in youth violence in the late 1980s In addition to this, laws such as the Brady bill have continued to emerge as public policy drawing attention to the issue of gun violence, and other topics have tended to come to the fore. Bush administration, such as the exclusionary rule, the death penalty, habeas corpus and the insanity defense. Community policing developed at the local level in the early 1980s, following local policing demonstration projects, often funded by the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Legal Assistance. Community policing emerged from the rejection of traditional policing practices in the 1970s, largely as a result of various studies that found that long-held assumptions about policing did not stand up to scrutiny. . An article written by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling published in a 1982 edition of Atlantic Monthly gave rise to the broken windows theory. According to this theory, when people no longer care about their community, the situation in that neighborhood often sends a signal to people that no one cares. This allows minor disturbances and crimes to go unnoticed, leading to more serious crimes. Once disorder begins to set in and petty crimes become commonplace, the neighborhood will eventually deteriorate and become rife with crime. The key to fixing broken windows is for police to target these minor crimes... middle of paper ...... rain sessions are typically held at the state and regional levels and use programs designed by the community policing consortium. which reflect knowledge gained from his early work with a number of police agencies and leaders. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 allocated funds for the addition of 100,000 cooperatives to support the concept of community policing to be added to state and local agencies across the United States. United. The policy authorized the employment of these officers at 75 percent for three years of an officer's salary and benefits, and it authorized funding for technology, personnel support and training. The bill also authorized the use of technology and personnel support that would free up a police officer to work on the streets, which officially counted as adding a police officer under the reemployment aspects of the bill..