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Criminal Justice & Due ProcessRestarts a $50 million-a-year federal grant for local anti-violence policing through 2030 — and widens what it can buy
Criminal Justice & Due Process
The Project Safe Neighborhoods grants help police, prosecutors, and community groups work together against violent crime. Their spending approval ended after 2021. The bill would allow up to $50 million a year again, from 2026 through 2030.
Today the grants pay for things like gun and gang crime programs and youth violence work. The bill would let them also pay for crime analysts and for overtime for police and prosecutors. They could also buy tech to cut violent crime, of any kind. And they could help task forces that cover more than one area.
More about this bill
Local police and prosecutors could get federal grant money to fight violent crime for five more years. Congress could spend up to $50 million a year on the Project Safe Neighborhoods grant program from 2026 through 2030. The program's spending approval ran out after 2021. It brings together federal, state, local, and tribal police with prosecutors and community groups. It runs in all 94 federal court districts. The grants could also pay for new things. They could pay to hire crime analysts, who study crime data to plan a response. They could cover overtime for police, prosecutors, and their aides. They could pay for crime-fighting technology, and for task forces that work across city or county lines. Each year, the Attorney General would tell Congress how each area spent its money. The report would also cover outreach work and the violent crimes in each area. Most people would not see a direct change in daily life.
Congressional Summary
Project Safe Neighborhoods Reauthorization Act of 2025 This bill reauthorizes through FY2030 the Project Safe Neighborhoods grant program within the Department of Justice. The bill also allows funds under the program to be used for hiring crime analysts to assist with violent crime reduction efforts; the cost of overtime for law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and law enforcement assistants who assist with the program; purchasing, implementing, and using technology to assist with violent crime reduction efforts; and supporting multijurisdictional task forces.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2025-04-03
- Date Added
- 2026-10-02
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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