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While the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the District of Columbia has been busy prosecuting Jan. 6 rioters, the office oversaw a significant decline in felony convictions as violent crime has ravaged Washington, D.C.
The Metropolitan Police Department made 538 narcotic arrests in D.C. during 2023, but courts only convicted people of 69 drug felony counts that year. Moreover, the total number of felony convictions in the district was roughly 36% below the pre-pandemic average, according to the D.C. Sentencing Commission’s 2023 annual report released on April 26. The figures are in spite of the fact that D.C. saw a massive surge in violent crime in 2023, with a 35% increase in homicides and a 67% increase in robberies from 2022.
Matthew Graves, the D.C. U.S. Attorney, is responsible for enforcing both federal and local laws in the district. His office expended significant resources prosecuting hundreds of […]
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