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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another enraging piece from the excellent DC Crime Facts Substack

https://dccrimefacts.substack.com/p/the-us-attorneys-hidden-role-in-undermining?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-restack-comment&r=2e&triedRedirect=true

Last week the DC Sentencing Commission released their Annual Report, which is one of our only data sources for what happens to cases after police make an arrest. Without this data we would never know that 79% of adults arrested with illegal guns in DC get away without any felony conviction. More than 2,000 gun cases over the last two years were either never prosecuted, dropped or pled down to lesser charges without any public scrutiny of DC’s prosecutor. This report (and similar excellent analyses by the Commission’s staff) are crucial for understanding how prosecutors and judges apply the laws on the books and getting beyond the vibes-based spin that dominates DC crime discourse. The report especially highlights the gap between how the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) acts in court vs. their poll-tested “tough on crime” public rhetoric. With kids as young as 3 years old being killed in shootings, we desperately need some accountability for our unelected prosecutor who has undermined all of DC’s local efforts to reduce gun violence.[/quote]

have you considered that it is because of the second and fourth amendment you racist [/quote]

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