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Sanders’s remarks come at a time when a Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse study found white-collar prosecutions are down 24.4% from five years ago. Additionally, a Public Citizen investigation found only 90 corporations pleaded guilty or were found guilty of a federal crime last year, a record low, according to the report.
These numbers are in stark contrast to the 350,150 Americans arrested for cannabis in 2020 — down from 545,602 in 2019 — and 92% of those were for simple possession, according to Common Dreams.
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