Far from “defunding the police,” the budget for the Metropolitan Police Department has pretty much stayed flat. DC Spends Dollars every year on the Metropolitan Police Department. $ 1000000000 + The current deployment allows for around one stop every four minutes, and 62,000 people were stopped over a 5 month...
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...
In DC, 97 percent of cases are resolved with plea deals, without a trial where the defendant can contest the charges. Three quarters of the cases the DC courts spend their time processing are traffic and misdemeanor crimes, not the crimes most identified with a lack...
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