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Federal Crime Prosecution Trends
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, based out of Syracuse University, published a study this week about the results of a case-by-case evaluation of more than 500,000 federal criminal prosecutions. This study revealed two broad trends in federal prosecutions over the last few years: the number of cases being prosecuted by the federal government has substantially increased each year band the kinds of criminal cases prosecuted has dramatically shifted.
This large scale report focused on four types of criminal cases: immigration, drug-related crimes, weapons crimes, and white-collar crime. The study indicated large increases in immigration and weapons prosecutions, while the number of federal prosecutions involving drug crimes and white collar crimes decreased in recent years. In 2003, for example, the number of federal criminal prosecutions for weapons offenses outnumbered the number of white collar crime cases.
According to the study, between 2002 and 2004, the number of immigration cases prosecuted by the federal government doubled from 16,724 to 37,854 criminal cases. Immigration crimes are now the single largest category of crimes prosecuted by the federal government.
Despite slight declines in recent years, drug cases currently comprise the second largest category of federal crimes prosecuted annually. Nearly 31,000 cases involving drug crimes were prosecuted at the federal level in 2004.
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