"A multimillion-dollar investment from the Department of Justice will be used by D.C. police to hire 25 additional officers. According to the Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser, the $3,125,000 funding D.C. police received through the DOJ’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) hiring program will go toward the District’s hiring effort for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2022. Following the District’s 10% increase in homicides year-over-year, finding new ways to tackle D.C. police’s staffing challenges has become a focus for the city. Mayor Bowser’s office pointed to both a D.C. Council imposed hiring freeze in 2020 and attrition on the force as to why only 3,550 officers are currently serving the District, the city’s lowest in more than two decades. Attempts to direct more funding to hire police officers haven’t been embraced by the Council, according to Bowser’s office."

https://wtop.com/dc/2021/12/dc-police-uses-doj-funding-to-address-hiring-challenges/