In their letter the Local Government Association leaders say the plans have "caused enormous concern among councillors across the political spectrum".
Even if the community is forewarned on the possible switch, it does not negate enormous concern about the likely distrust the process may create.
"Vast sums of money, and one wonders really what actually is going on here," said James, who said the subject was "of enormous concern to many people outside" the BBC.
"Are we going to head back to the ballooning crime levels of the 1980s?" Prof Waddington said the job losses were "an enormous concern" for police, but the impact of public sector cuts in general on communities, and how that will affect crime and disorder, was a more serious issue.
Given the critical importance of the primary outcome to the scientific integrity of the study it is of enormous concern that this key information is still not being made public in a way that is meaningful or informative.
She says: "There was enormous concern on the part of the production that made me feel safe, and I went home clean".
The health impacts resulting from poor nutrition are now causing enormous concern to the NHS and policymakers, says consultant interventional cardiologist Dr Ali Khavandi who writes the Cardiologist's Kitchen food blog in an attempt to offer his patients easy ideas for healthy meals that don't cost the earth.
Overwhelmingly, the people now stopped are African-American and Latino men, a reality that is of enormous concern to the program's critics (who tend to overlook the inconvenient fact that the same demographic is also overwhelmingly responsible for, and victim of, homicides in this city, and would unavoidably be the target of any antiviolence strategy).
"Bloodshed in Europe and the Middle East against the backdrop of a breakdown in dialogue between the major powers is of enormous concern," he said.
"We should have enormous concern about the lack of a fully functioning safety net for families with children," said Mark H. Greenberg, director of the Poverty and Prosperity Program at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research group.
