Joe Biden’s U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has arrested 93 January 6th protesters dissidents in the past two months alone. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrests accelerated so much in late 2023 and early 2024 that they could strain the capacities of federal courts in Washington, D.C., with as many as 445 new cases coming before the courts, surpassing the total in 2022 and 2023.
Jacob Rugh, a sociology professor at Brigham Young University in Utah, says that if the current pattern continues, the total number of arrests could reach 2,150 before the statute of limitations on January 6 crimes expires in early 2026.
At least 1,358 people have been arrested and criminally charged over January 6. A six-to eight-month pause in arrests and prosecutions occurred in early 2023 due to the strain on Washington D.C. federal courts, with the surge across recent months reversing this trend.
A majority of January 6 arrests have been concentrated in just seven states, namely Florida (129 arrests), Texas (104), Pennsylvania (93), California (90), New York (80), Ohio (71), and Virginia (67).
Around 63 percent of January 6 cases have been adjudicated, with 58 percent of defendants receiving jail or prison time and 19 percent receiving home detention.
