rescue/SWAT teams; $37 million to support the FBI’s improved personnel, facility, and information security; $23 million for additional maximum security prison space to house terrorist inmates; $2 million to assist the U.S. Attorneys in counterterrorism prosecutions; and $2.5 million to increase training for State and local law enforcement on the investigation of terrorist incidents.

*   Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]: The budget requests $4.6 billion for the FBI, or a $383 million increase, and can hire an additional 1,911 new personnel, including 811 new intelligence analysts and surveillance personnel.

*   Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA]: The President provides $1.6 billion for the DEA, a $13 million increase over the previous year. The budget also consolidates the Treasury, Coast Guard, and Justice Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Program within the DOJ and increases the combined funding for these programs by 15 percent, or $71 million, over the fiscal year 2003 combined funding level.

*   Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives [BATFE]: Through the enactment of HSA, all of the enforcement actions of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are being merged into DOJ, leaving only the revenue collection arm in the Treasury Department. Consistent with HSA, includes $10 million for the national Explosives Licensing Center, responsible for reviewing and acting on applications for all Federal explosives licenses and permits. For fiscal year 2004, the President requests $852 million for BATFE.

*   U.S. Marshals: To increase security at or around Federal judicial buildings, the President’s budget increases funding for the U.S. Marshals service to $721 million, an increase of $14 million, or about 2 percent.

*   Fighting Corporate Fraud: The President’s Budget includes and additional $25 million for DOJ to expand their investigative and prosecutorial capacity to address corporate fraud.

*   U.S. Attorneys: Crucial to the legal prosecution of terrorist suspects, as well as corporate crooks and other Federal law breakers, the budget provides $1.6 billion for the
    

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U.S. Attorneys to pursue justice through the Federal judicial system.

*   Forensic DNA Programs: The President’s budget request $190 million for forensic DNA programs, including $177 to assist State and local crime labs clear their backlog of unanalyzed DNA samples and technology improvements. Additional funding of $13 million would also be invested in the FBI’s national DNA database.

*   Office of Justice Programs [OJP] Grant Consolidation and Elimination: The budget provides nearly $2.3 billion in discretionary funding for State and local assistance, or $386 million below the prior year’s request. This reflects the elimination of the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant program due to poor performance, a reduction in the Justice Assistance Grant program, and other reductions, which are partially offset by the administration’s $97 million increase for DNA initiative grants. The overall reduction is further due to the reallocation of resources for counter-terrorism efforts.

*   Community Oriented Policing Services [COPS]: The President’s budget requests $164 million for continuation of the COPS grants program but, citing the completion of the original program mission to hire or redeploy 100,000 police officers by the year 2000 and the inconclusiveness of the program’s impact on crime, the President seeks no additional funds for the COPS hiring grants.

The budget does, however, allow for officer hiring through the Justice Assistance Grant program funded around $600 million in the President’s request.

*   Federal Bureau of Prisons [BOP]: The budget provides $4.7 billion for the Federal Prison Systems. Included in the budget are $188 million worth of rescissions for the planning, design, and construction of several prison facilities that can be delayed or better served through other methods, such as contracting out.

*   Asset Forfeitures Fund: The President’s budget proposes to merge the Treasury Department’s Asset Forfeiture Fund into a single Asset Forfeitures Fund within the DOJ.
    

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