| Federal Criminal Prosecutions in July Lowest Since 2007 |
| (31 Aug 2016)
Federal criminal prosecutions for July 2016 dropped to only 9,118, down 15.5 percent from June.
This number for July is the lowest on record since July of 2007. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, the continued decline during July contributed to overall drop for the first ten months of FY 2016 of 4.0 percent in federal criminal prosecutions as compared with FY 2015.
Among the major crime categories white collar crime prosecutions dropped by 11.0 percent so far this fiscal year as compared with the pace of filings during FY 2015. Immigration prosecutions dropped by 4.1 percent from last year, while drug prosecutions rose slightly (up 0.8 percent) and weapon prosecutions jumped by 8.7 percent. While the five federal districts along the country's border with Mexico continued to lead the country in the number of federal prosecutions filed so far during FY 2016, relative to their respective populations Wyoming, North and South Dakota also led the nation in the number of federal criminal prosecutions filed. For more details, including a timeline of prosecutions and top district rankings, see the report at: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/436/ In addition to these most recent overall figures, TRAC continues to offer free monthly reports on selected government agencies such as the FBI, ATF, DHS and the IRS. TRAC's reports also monitor program categories such as immigration, drugs, weapons, white collar crime and terrorism. For the latest information on prosecutions and convictions through July 2016, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/ Even more detailed criminal enforcement information for the period from FY 1986 through July 2016 is available to TRACFed subscribers via the Express and Going Deeper tools. Go to http://tracfed.syr.edu for more information. Customized reports for a specific agency, district, program, lead charge or judge are available via the TRAC Data Interpreter, either as part of a TRACFed subscription or on a per-report basis. Go to http://trac.syr.edu/interpreter to start. If you want to be sure to receive notifications whenever updated data become available, sign up at: http://tracfed.syr.edu/cgi-bin/tracuser.pl?pub=1&list=imm or follow us on Twitter @tracreports or like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/tracreports TRAC is self-supporting and depends on foundation grants, individual contributions and subscription fees for the funding needed to obtain, analyze and publish the data we collect on the activities of the US Federal government. To help support TRAC's ongoing efforts, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/cgi-bin/sponsor/sponsor.pl |
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