The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.

Funding Highlights:

• Provides significant increases to address the National Security and Intelligence challenges confronting the FBI and other Department of Justice components.
• Begins funding 50,000 additional police officers through the Community Oriented Policing Services program.
• Provides funding to combat financial fraud and protect the public interest.
• Reinvigorates Federal Civil Rights Enforcement.
• Provides the enforcement, confinement and prosecutorial resources necessary to help ensure the Nation's borders are secure.
• Addresses Federal detention and incarceration programs and ensures that returning Federal prisoners have the support needed to successfully reintegrate into communities.

Counters the Threat of Terrorism and Strengthens National Security

The Budget  provides $8 billion for the FBI, including $425 million in enhancements, and $88 million for the National Security Division to address the President's highest priority to protect the American people from terrorist acts.  Funding supports the detection and disruption of terrorists, counterintelligence, cyber security, and other threats against our National Security.

Combats financial fraud

The Budget provides resources for additional FBI agents to investigate mortgage fraud and white collar crime and for additional Federal prosecutors, civil litigators and bankruptcy attorneys to protect investors, the market, the Federal Government's investment of resources in the financial crisis, and the American public.

Provides funding to Begin to Put 50,000 More Cops on the Beat

Expanding COPS Hiring Grants, the Budget includes funding to begin hiring 50,000 additional police officers.  Supporting the hiring of police nationwide will help States and communities prevent the growth of crime during the economic downturn.

Reinvigorates federal Civil Rights Enforcement

The Budget includes $145 million for the Civil rights Division to strengthen civil rights enforcement against racial, ethnic, sexual preference, religious and gender discrimination.

Strengthens immigration Enforcement and Border Security

The Budget includes additional funding for a comprehensive approach to enforcement along the Nation's borders that combines law enforcement and prosecutorial component efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, and prosecute illegal immigrants and other criminals. The initiative also enhances the Department's ability to track fugitives from justice and combat gunrunners and illegal drug traffickers.

Supports federal detention and incarceration Programs

The Budget provides $6 billion for the Bureau of Prisons and $1.4 billion for the Office of the Detention Trustee to en- sure that sentenced criminals and detainees are housed in facilities that are safe, humane, cost- efficient, and appropriately secure.

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