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[quote=Anonymous]Prosecution is certainly an issue, since 2017 the USAO no paper rate has risen to 67%. That is under 3 different presidents and their appointed USAOs. DC is an outlier among major cities with a dramatically lower prosecution rate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/29/us-attorneys-office-charges-declined-dc-police/

When USAO Graves ran a pilot project in Chinatown, removing all prosecutorial discretion, prosecution or "paper' rates rose sharply for that small area, but, overall for that month, dropped 4% from June to July, so an overall net drop. The rate increased when discretion was removed, despite same MPD, forensic lab issues and things Graves typically cites as obstacles to prosecution. Yet, due to resources, slowdown, ???, overall net drop with that geographic increase.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/05/chinatown-crime-dc-police/

This was tried to bring more gun cases but blocked

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/black-prosecutors-dc-gun-cases/index.html

The Council has passed a series of laws changing penalties, changing juvenile prosecution, changing bases for holding pre-trial, etc, and judges at DC Superior Court apply those laws.

Many interrelated issues, but walking to Politics & Prose or Breadfurst seems riskier today. [/quote]

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