National Crime Victims' Rights Week, 2025

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 10915 of April 9, 2025

National Crime Victims' Rights Week, 2025

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

All Americans should be able to thrive in their
communities, raise their families, and lead long and
fulfilling lives without fear of being victimized by
crime. Tragically, in recent years, soft-on-crime
policies have emboldened vicious criminals, murderers,
and gang members to wage war on our public safety,
endanger our public spaces, and break down the rule of
law. This National Crime Victims' Rights Week, we offer
our unending support to every victim of crime, and we
recognize that freedom in America cannot survive
without safety in America.

Under the previous administration, violent crime
skyrocketed in virtually every city of our great
Nation, with 12 major cities breaking all-time high
murder records in 2021. Over the last 4 years, radical
left-wing policies empowered some of the most depraved
criminals on the planet and made it harder for police
officers to do their jobs. Earlier this year, President
Biden commuted the sentences of 37 death row criminals
guilty of the most heinous acts imaginable--including
rape, child molestation, and murder. These commutations
stand as a devastating betrayal of innocent victims and
their families.

During the Biden Administration, the United States
Border Patrol recorded over 10.8 million encounters of
illegal aliens nationwide, along with over 2 million
known ``got aways''--a number that could be
underreported by as much as 20 percent. Millions of
illegal aliens have entered or evaded capture, with
countless criminals and potential national security
threats now at large in our Country. That is why within
hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a
national emergency on our southern border. We have also
begun the largest deportation operation in the history
of our country--and as your 47th President, the first
bill I signed into law was the Laken Riley Act, which
mandates the detention of all dangerous criminal aliens
who threaten public safety.

To aid the righteous mission of the men and women in
blue, my Administration is committed to enhancing legal
protections for law enforcement officers. I am also
asking the Congress for a new crime bill that will get
tough on repeat offenders while enhancing protection
for our law enforcement officials, so they can do their
jobs without fear of their lives being destroyed.

Under my leadership, America will soon, once again, be
a country where the blessings of life and peace exist
freely in our homes, at places of work and worship, and
throughout our cities, streets, and neighborhoods. Our
citizens will be able to live without the threat of
getting robbed, assaulted, or shot. This week, as we
honor the lives of victims and their families, I
reaffirm my solemn pledge to build a safer, stronger,
and more secure Nation for citizens of every race,
religion, color, and creed.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim April 6 through April
12, 2025, as National Crime Victims' Rights Week. I
urge all Americans, families, law enforcement,
community and faith-based organizations, and

private organizations to work together to support
victims of crime and protect their rights.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
ninth.