WASHINGTON, D.C. – Under the leadership of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice charged the largest number of violent crime and firearm defendants in its history in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, the Justice Department says.
“President Donald Trump is a law-and-order President—and this is a law-and-order administration,” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “The Department of Justice is breaking law enforcement records and doing so by significant margins. When I took office as Attorney General, I ordered federal prosecutors and agents to take illegal guns off of our streets, to prosecute crimes aggressively, to protect our nation’s borders, and to target white collar fraud. With support from our state and local partners, our federal prosecutors and agents have delivered—and I am grateful to them and the fabulous state and local officers who worked so hard to make these achievements possible. And we are seeing results. Violent crime and homicides, which jumped in 2015 and 2016, both dropped in 2017 and will drop again in 2018. There can be no doubt that good law enforcement policies can make our communities safer.”
According to data from the Executive Office of United States Attorneys (EOUSA), the number of defendants charged with criminal felony offenses increased by nearly 15 percent from more than 71,200 defendants in FY 2017 to more than 81,800 in FY 2018.
In FY 2018, the Justice Department charged the largest number of violent crime defendants since EOUSA started to track this category more than 25 years ago (more than 16,800)—surpassing by nearly 15 percent the previous record set just last year.
In FY 2018, the Justice Department charged more than 15,300 defendants with federal firearms offenses, which is 17 percent more than the previous record.
In FY 2018, over 23,400 defendants were charged with felony illegal re-entry, an increase of more than 38 percent from FY 2017.
In FY 2018, over 23,600 defendants were charged with drug-related offenses, an increase of more than six percent from FY 2017.
Also in FY 2018, the Justice Department increased white-collar prosecutions by more than three percent, charging more than 6,500 defendants.
Finally, in FY 2018, more than 68,400 defendants were charged with misdemeanor illegal entry. This is the highest number of such defendants charged since EOUSA started to track this category and an almost 86 percent increase from the previous year. This total is also more than 4 percent higher than the previous record of over 65,500 defendants set in FY 2013.
Democrats are anti Americans please don’t vote for the haters.They had rather have illegals coming unlawfully into this country than helping this country obey the laws.Sad time when the people who are supposed to be helping citizens had rather see illegals voting than citizens
Keep on locking up those Criminal Democrats. There are lots of them left.
The justice department should start looking for crooks in the WH. Their numbers would really improve.
Come on, give the Obama admenstruateion a break. He did the best he could to give away the US and just about accomplished the job too.
If president Trump does not bring in the United States Military to secure the border with Mexico/America the Republicans will lose the senate and the house of representatives in the mid term election on Nov. 6th 2018 – take it to the bank. We cannot let Mexico be a staging for illegals and the U N plot of the NWO to invade America and make it a 3rd world county alias / shithole. Maybe 20,000 legally armed citizens are needed to secure our nation ? Soro’s and his bat chit mob are coming for us.