Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling
Everyday, we find out more and more programs that were or are being cut by Trump Admin.!!
Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/24/nx-s1-5392378/justice-department-cuts-to-public-safety-grants-leave-police-and-nonprofits-scrambling
May 24, 20258:00 AM ET Martin Kaste
The Justice Department has drastically scaled back its support for anti-crime initiatives across the country, leaving law enforcement agencies and private groups scrambling to try to replace the money. The cuts were announced in late April, and the Council on Criminal Justice estimates 373 grants were terminated, totaling about $500 million.
The sweeping nature of the cuts took many public safety groups by surprise.
"We knew that there were federal cuts coming," says Kelsie McDaniel, the district attorney in Union County, Oregon. "But we didn't think that it would include things that were within the program goals and agency priorities that the DOJ had previously talked about."
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Her office used a federal grant to pay for an investigator to do more in-depth crime investigations, such as building a case against fentanyl dealers whose product had led to fatal overdoses.
"We wouldn't be able to do that without him," McDaniel says. "We thought, well, where other programs might be getting cut, we thought we might actually see an increase in funding."...........................
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Attorney General Pam Bondi listens during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in Washington. In late April, the DOJ's Department of Justice Programs cancelled hundreds of public safety grants to local police and non-profits, leaving many to scramble to replace the funding. Many are appealing the cuts. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)