Posted on 12/29/2022 3:50:40 PM PST by bitt
The Department of Justice under President Joe Biden released new data on Thursday, and it wasn't good. Yet the DOJ is seemingly bragging that the "number of federal arrests reached the lowest point in two decades" in Fiscal Year 2021 as if that's an achievement to be proud of.
The numbers come via the Federal Justice Statistics report, showing that "arrests by federal law enforcement agencies declined 35% from fiscal year (FY) 2020 to FY 2021, reaching the lowest level over the past two decades."
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The report cited COVID-triggered pandemic restrictions as a reason why "federal arrests declined 81% and cases charged in federal court declined 77%" between March and April in 2020, with an additional decline of 25% in arrests and 20% in cases charged, from October 2020 to February 2021.
What's more, the latest statistics report noted, in its apparent hyping-up of lawlessness, that in the 10 fiscal years from 2011 to 2021, "the number of persons under federal correctional control declined 15%, from 410,887 to 350,543." As readers may recall, there was a push by the left to use COVID to empty prisons and return more criminals to the streets before their sentences were served in-full.
But it's not like there was less crime during the same period or a lack of success in federal prosecution of cases. According to the DOJ's report, "about 9 in 10" of defendants who were charged in federal district courts were convicted. Nearly three-quarters of those convicted were sentenced to prison for a median punishment of 37 months behind bars.
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“Defund the police” didn’t play so well with the public, I think.
So, they still fund the police, they just request that the police not fight crime so much.
Well, when any skin color shaded darker than a redhead’s gets a pass.....
Y’know, ‘cause of systemanticiancal raaaaaacism and stuff.
Performance art is not governing.
If you can not arrest people because of “police reform” laws, arrests go down.
“There are three kinds of Lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” - Mark Twain
Look at that headline, the Babylon Bee strikes again! Oh, wait...
COVID like 9-11 was an excuse and justification for a lot of questionable things.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
It’s a DOJ black thing or thang, you wouldn’t understand. But more than this, this is white women and gays promoting this in the DOJ. While most of the DOJ sit on their glorious lefty asses at home in the work from home scam.
Matter of fact, the entire Federale Gov’t in DC is one big scam to collect taxes from the peasants (aka producers) and do nothing useful. Most sheeple in America have fallen for this hypnosis aka Federale scam.
Well when you stop crime, there’s noone left to arrest. Good job, Democrats. Criminals just gave up because it just didn’t pay to be a criminal.
The only ones they want to arrest are people protesting vaccine mandates and those protesting drag shows for kids.
I prefer celebrating decreased criminal activity.
Is it because they’re all too busy investigating Trump related cases?
Owned by the drug cartels.
Maybe it means “Biden celebrates fewest arrests of Hunter since the time he possessed cocaine while paying for a prostitute.”
They simply didn’t arrest the rabble rousers that were destroying cities.
Arrests are a BAD metric.
Arrests/Crime# may be OK, but the DoJustUs is totally corrupt.
The Meritless Garland needs to be impeached and removed.
“Owned by the drug cartels.”
Congress needs to declare WAR on the Cartels, even if it runs to BiXiden.
“...number of federal arrests reached the lowest point in two decades.”
Well, THAT is painting lipstick on a pig. Law enforcement officers everywhere are just giving up on arresting or even obstructing the actions of criminals, because with “no bail”, they are back out on the streets within hours anyway. And when the case comes up in court, if it ever does, the judge will just turn the miscreant loose.
This is what happens when law enforcement is treated as some kind of a prank.
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