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It’s a well-established fact of criminal justice in America that prosecutors focus far more on violent crimes than they do financial crimes. This isn’t just true at a local level, where under-resourced district attorneys and police departments may decide undertaking complex financial investigations isn’t worth the effort when there are murders and robberies to solve. According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse database from Syracuse University, which has been compiling federal government statistics since 1989, white-collar crime prosecutions by the U.S. Department of Justice are hovering near a 20-year low, largely due to the FBI shifting its priorities to anti-terrorism efforts after 9/11.
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