"Interviews with current and former prosecutors suggest the hiring slowdown stems from a mixture of budget and political pressures. Hiring freezes have stalled recruitment, and pay raises have made bringing in new talent more expensive. The Department of Justice is also mired in turmoil under Trump, with sagging morale and potential recruits possibly worried about taking on ethically murky casework."
""When we came into this administration, we came in with 30% of vacancies in our criminal division already," said Brook Andrews, who recently joined the law firm Nelson Mullins from the US Attorney's Office in South Carolina, where he worked for 10 years, most recently as acting US attorney. "There's a staffing crisis in federal law enforcement, and if it's allowed to continue, it will make Americans less safe.""
"So far this year, however, the Justice Department has hired significantly fewer assistant US attorneys than in previous years, according to an analysis of data from Workforce.AI, a data analysis platform. From January through August, about 42 people updated their LinkedIn pages to indicate that they had joined the Justice Department in such a role, which is down by more than half from the same period in each of the four preceding years, the data shows."
Being a front-line federal prosecutor has long been a plum job with hundreds of applicants for a single opening. From January through August about 42 people updated LinkedIn to show they joined the Justice Department as assistant US attorneys, a drop of more than half compared with the same period in each of the four preceding years. Interviews attribute the slowdown to budget and political pressures, hiring freezes, higher pay costs for new hires, turmoil under the Trump administration, sagging morale, and concern among recruits about ethically murky casework. Public skepticism of law enforcement and rising private-sector wages have also reduced applicant volume.
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