Additional Measures To Address the Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia

Executive Order 14339 of August 25, 2025

Additional Measures To Address the Crime
Emergency in the District of Columbia

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Crime Emergency. Two weeks ago, I declared a
crime emergency in the District of Columbia to address
the rampant violence and disorder that have undermined
the proper and safe functioning of the Federal
Government, and therefore, the Nation, and that have
led to disgraceful conditions in our Nation's capital.
In furtherance of Executive Order 14333 of August 11,
2025 (Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of
Columbia), I am now ordering further actions to address
the conditions described in that Executive Order.

Sec. 2. Operational Actions. (a) The Director of the
National Park Service shall, subject to the
availability of appropriations and applicable law, hire
additional members of the United States Park Police in
the District of Columbia to support the policy goals
described in Executive Order 14333. The United States
Park Police shall ensure enforcement of all applicable
laws within their jurisdiction, including the Code of
the District of Columbia, to help maintain public
safety and proper order.

(b) The United States Attorney for the District of
Columbia shall, subject to the availability of
appropriations and applicable law, hire additional
prosecutors to focus on prosecuting violent and
property crimes.
(c) The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force
established in Executive Order 14252 of March 27, 2025
(Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful),
shall establish an online portal for Americans with law
enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and
experience to apply to join Federal law enforcement
entities to support the policy goals described in
Executive Order 14333. Each law enforcement agency that
is a member of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force,
as well as other relevant components of the Department
of Justice as the Attorney General determines, shall
further, subject to the availability of appropriations
and applicable law, immediately create and begin
training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized
unit that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and
order in the Nation's capital that can be deployed
whenever the circumstances necessitate, and that could
be deployed, subject to applicable law, in other cities
where public safety and order has been lost.
(d)(i) The Secretary of Defense shall, subject to
the availability of appropriations and applicable law,
immediately create and begin training, manning, hiring,
and equipping a specialized unit within the District of
Columbia National Guard, subject to activation under
Title 32 of the United States Code, that is dedicated
to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation's
capital. As appropriate and consistent with applicable
law, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the
Interior, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in
coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall each
deputize the members of this unit to enforce Federal
law.

(ii) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each
State's Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained,
organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law
enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety
and order

whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law. In
coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of
Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State's trained
National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization
for such purposes. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the
availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall
be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.

(e) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) shall investigate any non-compliance with the
crime-prevention and safety requirements of HUD
agreements by the District of Columbia Housing
Authority or any landlord in the District of Columbia.
These investigations shall include consideration of the
provisions of such agreements that require housing
providers to maintain safe, decent, and sanitary
conditions or to restrict tenants who engage in
criminal activity that threatens health, safety, and
the right to peaceful enjoyment for other tenants,
including engaging in drug distribution, violent
criminal activity, and domestic violence. The Secretary
of HUD shall refer any findings of non-compliance to
the Attorney General, Federal law enforcement
authorities, the District of Columbia Housing Authority
Police Department, and the Metropolitan Police
Department, as appropriate.
(f) The Secretary of Transportation shall conduct
additional inspections, audits, and examinations to
determine whether conditions exist in federally-funded
transit services in the District of Columbia that
endanger transit workers, and take appropriate remedial
action that is within the Department of
Transportation's authority.

Sec. 3. Potential Amendments to Metropolitan Police
Department General Orders. (a) The Attorney General
shall review the Metropolitan Police Department General
Orders and shall request that the Mayor of the District
of Columbia make such updates and modifications to such
orders as the Attorney General determines are necessary
to address the crime emergency and ensure public order
and safety.

Sec. 4. Severability. If any provision of this order,
or the application of any provision to any individual
or circumstance, is held to be invalid, the remainder
of this order and the application of its other
provisions to any other individuals or circumstances
shall not be affected thereby.

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees or agents, or any
other person.

(d) The costs for publication of this order shall
be borne by the Department of Justice.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 25, 2025.