Executive Order 14333

"Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia" is an executive order issued by U.S. president Donald Trump in August 2025.

On August 11, 2025, Trump switched control of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) from the city government of Washington, D.C., to the federal government, invoking section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act for the first time in history. Under a separate presidential memorandum and subsequent executive order, Trump also deployed federal law enforcement agencies, the District of Columbia National Guard, and the National Guards of multiple states in response to what he claimed was "rampant crime" in the city, though statistics showed that the city was amidst a 30-year low in crime and that crime was decreasing in 2024–2025. However, a Washington, D.C., police commissioner was placed on leave for allegedly falsifying crime data in mid-May, and the city police union has claimed that underreporting of crime is a systemic problem.

The order federalizing control of the MPDC expired on September 10, but the Secretary of the Army initially extended the National Guard deployment to November 30 and the Secretary of Defense subsequently extended the deployment to February 28, 2026. On September 4, the Attorney General for the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to block the National Guard deployment. On November 20, a federal judge ruled that the National Guard deployment was not lawful and issued an order directing the administration to end the deployment but stayed the ruling. After announcing within a day of the ruling that it intended to file an appeal, the Trump administration did so on November 26. On the same day the appeal was filed, two West Virginia National Guard soldiers deployed to the District were shot, and Trump ordered the deployment of 500 additional National Guard troops in response.

In January 2026, the National Guard deployment was extended to the end of the year. The next month, a minority staff report issued by the Senate Homeland Security Committee estimated that the National Guard deployment to the District from August 2025 through the end of February 2026 would cost $332 million (or $602 million on an annualized basis), which compared with a $599 million budget for the MPDC for fiscal year 2026. As noted by the U.S. Justice Department and District Mayor Muriel Bowser, crime statistics from before the National Guard deployment showed falling violent crime and property crime rates in the District.