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AZFamily
June 6, 2018
Federal focus on immigration may be good news for other criminals By Morgan Lowe
	he U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona prosecuted more cases than any other U.S. Attorney’s Office in the country last year. But the office also declined to prosecute more cases than any other U.S. Attorney’s Office, according to data provided by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, with Syracuse University. According to the data, the Arizona office prosecuted 18,724 criminal cases last year. Of those cases, 15,528 were immigration-related. And while the office declined prosecution in just 3 percent of the immigration cases forwarded by federal agents, the declination rate for cases forwarded by other federal law enforcement agencies was much higher. TRAC data show prosecutors rejected 35 percent of the cases forwarded by the ATF, 41 percent of the cases forwarded by the DEA and 44 percent of the cases forwarded by the FBI. External Link
	Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University Copyright 2018