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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So there is a federal government conspiracy to release criminals in DC or...what is the reasoning here?[/quote]

More likely is that DC USAO is (1) overwhelmed with cases given the jurisdiction and (2) deprioritizes local crimes in favor of big stuff involving international conspiracy, money, national security, etc.

In short, the local crime prosecution unit is probably the backwater of DOJ that no one wants to do. [b]It’s probably staffed with a bunch of people straight out of law school biding their time to jump to more prestigious gigs in DOJ.[/b]

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Not exactly.

My office once sent a few of our attorneys each year (less than 2%), on detail, to the USAO.  Our attorneys are specialists in a very different area of the law.  We only deal tangentially with criminal law matters.

Our attorneys are highly skilled at what they do.  However, the six-month details to D.C.’s USAO involved essentially a crash-course in practical prosecution/ settlement of petty crimes such as prostitution and drug possession. Training was “learn as you go.” Plea agreements were by far the most common outcome.  To to one’s surprise recidivists were the overwhelming bulk of arrestees.

The detail was used as a resume enhancer.  And it has long been clear, through administration after administration, the office is woefully underfunded.  Democrat and R administrations alike do not care about DC crime.

I will add:  even Biden refused to intervene to save the radical, equity-driven, proposal to weaken DC’s criminal code.  Similar initiatives across the country have done nothing beyond drive crime waves in urban areas.

Such reforms are clearly the wrong answer.[/quote]

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