Yes. Of the 8,062 law enforcement agencies that contributed statistics to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) 1997 Uniform Crime Report—a data collection system that tracks crime rates—the 1 percent of locations with the highest homicide rates (these jurisdictions reported 54 percent of all murders in the United States) had received 31 percent of all COPS funds awarded through that time. Half of all COPS awards were made to the 10 percent of jurisdictions with the highest murder counts. A similar award pattern applied with regard to robbery.