Prevention Skip to issues The current system of prosecution, punishment, and policing isn’t preventing violence. Too many DC residents experience unacceptable levels of violence. But when violence erupts, it almost exclusively impacts Black residents. About 95 percent of victims and suspects in homicides and 94 percent of victims...
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DC spends Dollars every year on the Metropolitan Police Department. $ 1000000000 + DC also has Federal law enforcement agencies operating in the city. 0 While substantial resources go into policing, public trust in their fairness and effectiveness has reached an all-time low. Most voters doubt police can treat Black and white individuals...
people in DC are under correctional control at any given time. 100 + Council for Court Excellence people have a publicly-available arrest or a conviction record. 0 + The Urban Institute Over 20,000 people from DC are incarcerated in prison or jail, are supervised on probation, parole, or supervised release, or under some...
No Data Found In DC, 97 percent of cases are resolved with plea deals, without a trial where the defendant can contest the charges. No Data Found Federal prosecutors declined to prosecute 56 percent of those arrested in DC. Three quarters of the cases the DC courts spend their...
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