Executive Order 14339

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

Signed August 25, 2025, printed at 90 FR 42121. 3 sections of substance, 1,109 words.

In plain English

This order adds to the crime steps in the capital. It sends more federal agents and guard troops.

Sec. 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.

In plain English

This follows an earlier order. Two weeks before, the President named a crime emergency in the capital. That order cited street violence. It cited disorder as well. It said the government could not work safely. It said conditions there were shameful. This order adds more steps to meet those same conditions.

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

In plain English

This adds people on the ground. The Park Service must hire more park police there. Money and law permitting. Those officers must enforce all laws in their area. City law counts. The federal prosecutor must hire more staff. Violent and property crime is their focus. A city task force must open a web portal.

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.

In plain English

This targets police orders in the capital. The Attorney General must review them. Those orders set how the city police work. It must then ask the mayor to change them. Only changes it finds needed count. The aim is to meet the crime emergency. Public order and safety are named.

Sec. 4. Severability

Every order carries this. It is not what the order does.

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.

In plain English

This is the standard severability clause. If a court strikes down part of the order, the rest still stands.

Sec. 5. General Provisions

Every order carries this. It is not what the order does.

(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. [[Page 42123]] (d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Justice. <GRAPHIC(S) NOT AVAILABLE IN TIFF FORMAT> (Presidential Sig.) THE WHITE HOUSE, August 25,

In plain English

This is the closing clause that nearly every order carries. It says the order does not change what the law already allows. It also says no one can sue to enforce it.

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