Trump expands DC Task Force with new hiring portal for law enforcement
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FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is expanding the DC Task Force, launched in early 2025 to combat crime in the nation’s capital, with a new recruiting portal open to law enforcement agencies nationwide, Fox News Digital has learned.
More than 2,000 law enforcement personnel support the task force each night, and the team will now expand its mission with hiring. The administration launched a new hiring portal, SAFEDC.GOV, on Wednesday, urging law enforcement to apply for positions at federal agencies participating in the task force.
Fox News Digital has learned that hired candidates will work with the D.C. Task Force for up to one year on initial assignment. Hires are eligible for hiring bonuses, health care, federal retirement benefits, paid leave and other benefits.
The launch of the portal comes after President Donald Trump repeatedly celebrated the task force’s success in D.C., citing it as an example for other cities to address their own crime woes.
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The Trump administration is expanding the D.C. crime task force with a hiring portal for additional officers. (Middle East Images via Dominic Gwinn/AFPGetty Images)
Washington D.C. was among the cities nationwide to be hit by the violent crime wave of 2020, when murders soared across the country. In later years DC shaken by shots The sometimes fatal tendency of young people to steal cars, which kills innocent children, theft crimes and attacks on government workers, summer interns and others, including the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old congressional intern in June.
Democrats have pushed back against Trump’s D.C. crime crackdown and similar efforts in cities like Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, calling it an “abuse of power” and not needed because crime trends have decreased since 2020.
“We went from the most unsafe place in the world to a place where people now call me, my friends call me, Democrats call me and say, ‘Sir, I want to thank you. For the first time in four years, my wife and I went out to dinner last night and Washington DC is safe and you did it in four days,'” Trump said in August. he said.
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Trump signed an executive order in March establishing the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force to combat crime in the city and strengthen efforts to beautify it; then signed another executive order in August declaring a crime emergency in the city and federalizing the police department.
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC on October 6, 2025 (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Hundreds of National Guard soldiers have been patrolling the city’s streets amid the crackdown, including in trafficked hotspots like Union Station.
President Donald Trump speaks with law enforcement members and National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C., on August 21, 2025 (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press)
More than 20 federal and local law enforcement agencies are assisting the task force, and there have been more than 5,000 arrests since its inception. The efforts also led to the recovery of 14 missing children and the removal of more than 400 firearms from the city, according to White House data.
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In a third executive order on August 25, Trump specifically called on the administration to create a recruiting portal for the task force, directing the task force to “create an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experiences who may apply to join Federal law enforcement agencies in support of the policy objectives identified in Executive Order 14333.”
Armed National Guard members patrol near the U.S. Capitol as security tightens following President Donald Trump’s order to deploy. (Getty Images/Thoss Katopodis)
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Trump is currently in the middle of a week-long trip to Asia to meet with foreign leaders to discuss trade and regional security. He also met with US troops stationed in Japan on Tuesday and underlined the security of Washington DC since the fight against crime began.
“Crime is down to almost zero. It’s a whole different game. It literally took 12 days, but let’s give us a month to do it. We did it really, really hard, and it’s a beautiful thing. And our service people and, you know, people don’t care if we send our military, if we send our National Guard, if we send Space Command, they don’t care who it is. They just want to be safe. And we have safe cities now. “We’re starting in Memphis, and Memphis was a disaster,” Trump said.
