DC has about the same number of murders this year as BALTIMORE

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DC prosecutors office has spent the last two years prosecuting January 6 crimes and the defendants in many (MANY) of them went to trial. It's sucked up a ton of the prosecutorial resources and had really bad downstream consequences on every other type of criminal prosecution in the city.

Exactly. They obviously don’t much care about protecting the lives of poor DC residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The DC prosecutors office has spent the last two years prosecuting January 6 crimes and the defendants in many (MANY) of them went to trial. It's sucked up a ton of the prosecutorial resources and had really bad downstream consequences on every other type of criminal prosecution in the city.

Exactly. They obviously don’t much care about protecting the lives of poor DC residents.

The prosecution rate has been declining since 2017, under 3 different Presidential appointees.

Graves spoke of a pilot project in Chinatown where all prosecutorial discretion was removed and prosecution rates shot up - same MPD, lab issues, etc. That suggests where a big part of the problem lies and why it has continued to worsen under multiple USAOs, Obama, Trump and Biden appointees. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/05/chinatown-crime-dc-police/

See also this staff attorney opposition to an attempt to prosecute more gun crime in the district from that far right outlet, CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/black-prosecutors-dc-gun-cases/index.html