Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement To Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens

The order directs the Attorney General to create a mechanism — including private-sector pro bono legal help — to provide legal resources and indemnification to law enforcement officers who face personal liability for actions taken in the line of duty. It directs the Attorney General and other agency heads to maximize federal resources for state and local policing: issuing best practices, expanding training, increasing pay and benefits, seeking stiffer sentences for crimes against officers, promoting prison investment, and improving national crime-data collection. The order also directs the Secretary of Defense to determine how military assets, training, and personnel can be deployed to support local crime prevention.

Within 60 days, the Attorney General must review all active federal consent decrees, out-of-court agreements, and post-judgment orders with state or local law enforcement agencies and move to modify or end any that "unduly impede" policing. The Attorney General is also directed to prioritize federal prosecution of state or local officials who obstruct criminal law enforcement or restrict police activity through DEI-related policies. The order tasks the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security with using the existing Homeland Security Task Forces established by EO 14159 to advance these goals.

State and local law enforcement agencies and officers nationwide, city and state officials in jurisdictions currently operating under federal consent decrees, state and local governments that restrict police activity through DEI-related policies, and residents of communities whose police departments receive new federal resources or training.

Cities and police departments currently governed by federal consent decrees could see those court-supervised agreements modified or ended. Local officials in jurisdictions that limit certain police tactics or maintain DEI-related law enforcement policies face new federal prosecution risk, which could reshape how cities govern their police departments.

The order unfolds in two parallel tracks. The first is resource-building: the Attorney General and agency heads use existing federal funding and programs to push training, data, legal protections, and military surplus to local departments, with no firm deadline. The second is legal accountability: within 60 days the Attorney General reviews consent decrees and moves to end restrictive ones; within 90 days the Attorney General and Secretary of Defense expand military-asset transfers; and ongoing, the Attorney General pursues prosecution of non-compliant local officials. Homeland Security Task Forces serve as the coordinating structure. Enforcement authority rests on existing federal criminal law; the order itself creates no new federal crimes.