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As for Trump’s claim that his administration is “going to be bringing … up” the number of drug prosecutions, that has not been the case so far, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.
According to TRAC’s case-by-case analysis of U.S. district court records, there were only 8,814 drug offenders federally prosecuted between February and June, down from 9,687 federal criminal cases prosecuted during the same period in 2016.
It remains to be seen, of course, whether Trump’s vow to step up federal criminal enforcement for opioid offenses comes to pass. But the TRAC data show that hasn’t happened yet.
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