How many people have been convicted of violent crimes against law enforcement from the January 6 attack as of November 2025?

1. Convictions overall vs. convictions for violence at officers — the data split

Public trackers and legal reporting as of early 2025 focused on total prosecutions and total convictions rather than a neat, final tabulation of “violent crimes against law enforcement” convictions by a later date. Lawfare reported that by the fourth anniversary (Jan. 6, 2025) about 1,583 people had been arrested and 1,270 convicted in the January 6 prosecutions, a broad figure that includes misdemeanors, property crimes, obstruction counts and violent-offense convictions mixed together ^[1]. The Justice Department and related reporting separately noted that more than 560 individuals had been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement — a charge that is a felony in many instances — but that number is a charge count, not a final tally of convictions for those specific violent offenses ^[2].

2. Why a precise November 2025 conviction count for assaults on officers is elusive

Available sources show two parallel problems: (a) public tallies often report total convictions and separately report how many defendants were charged with assaults on officers, rather than reporting convictions by specific offense, and (b) the political and prosecutorial upheavals after January 2025 — including mass pardons/commutations and personnel changes at the Justice Department — altered the landscape and removed or obscured some case listings and public trackers ^{[3] [4] [5]}. Wikipedia and other trackers note that President Trump issued mass pardons/commutations on January 20, 2025, affecting many of the convictions and that some official lists were later removed or became inaccessible ^{[3] [4] [6]}.

3. What the major outlets and trackers do report

Lawfare’s Jan. 6, 2025, roundup gives the clearest headline numbers: about 1,583 arrested and about 1,270 convicted across the broad set of January 6 prosecutions ^[1]. The DOJ’s district releases and other reporting earlier in the prosecution process documented that over 560 defendants faced charges for assaulting or impeding law enforcement — a key metric often cited to estimate the scale of violence against officers — but those are charge counts and do not convert directly to a post-pardon convictions count ^[2].

4. The complicating factor of pardons, commutations and later prosecutions

Multiple sources record that President Trump issued wide-ranging pardons and commutations on January 20, 2025, which erased or altered many convictions and sentences; reporting emphasizes the controversy, including law-enforcement unions’ objections to pardoning people convicted of assaulting officers ^{[3] [6]}. At the same time, outlets continued to report on individual violent-offense prosecutions and later unrelated convictions of pardoned individuals — demonstrating that post-pardon legal activity and new state or unrelated federal charges continued to complicate an overall accounting ^{[7] [8]}.

5. Recent developments and prosecutions that matter to the count

Even after the mass pardon action in January 2025, federal and state prosecutions continued in some cases and new convictions on related violent conduct were still being reported into late 2025 (for example, sentencing press releases and news pieces about specific assault convictions and other violent charges) ^{[2] [7]}. However, available sources do not supply a clean, authoritative number as of November 2025 that isolates only those convicted specifically of violent crimes against law enforcement arising from January 6 (not found in current reporting).

6. How to interpret the best available figures

If you need a working estimate: use two headline numbers from reputable trackers and DOJ summaries — roughly 1,270 total convictions among January 6 defendants by Jan. 6, 2025, and roughly 560+ defendants charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement — and then note the limits: charges ≠ convictions, and mass pardons/commutations on Jan. 20, 2025, changed the legal status of many convictions ^{[1] [2] [6]}. Any definitive “convicted of violent crimes against law enforcement as of Nov. 2025” figure is not supplied in the sources provided; available reporting does not provide that specific, updated breakdown (not found in current reporting).

If you want, I can run a focused search of these sources for individual case lists or assemble a rolling count by reviewing the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s archived press releases and major tracker databases to try to approximate convictions for assaulting officers through November 2025.